Hi Bill Neely,

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, A W Neely wrote:


>> Al Grauer and I are trying to get hcompress running for a consortium
>> telescope with the University of Arkansas.  We are compiling on a
>> Mandrake 9.2 linux machine, but keep getting the error 'no rule for hcomp.o'
>>
>> Do we need more libraries, or something else?


Did you ever get this to work?  I finally got access to a Mandrake machine
to try it out (running 9.0, not 9.2) and I do not see this problem, although
I did see another problem.  Try this:

- First, copy the contents of both the source directory and the unix directory
  (which contains the makefile) to a build directory.
	% cd hcompress
	% mkdir bin
	% cp source/* bin/
	% cp unix/* bin/
  Possibly you have not done this -- if the makefile is missing or hcomp.c is
  not in the same directory as the makefile, that could explain the error message.

- Edit the makefile to delete the line that contains '${LIB}(getopt.o)' --
  that module is not needed on Mandrake (probably not on any system these
  days, in fact) and it did cause trouble on 9.0.

- Then a simple 'make' should build the programs without any problems.

Good luck -- I hope this helps.  One of these days I'll release a new
version of the program that builds more easily.  This old release was
originally built for VMS (!) and so definitely has some archaic features
in both the code and build process.
					Cheers,
					Rick White