Question

I am compiling an ancient program called SCOL (written in 1997) which comes pre-packged with OpinionFinder using gcc 3.4.5. I am using CentOS 5.5. After giving the make command, I get the following error:

/home/shahw/opinionfinder/software/scol1k/tools/tagfixes -c e8.fx
Wrote e8.fxc
/home/shahw/opinionfinder/software/scol1k/tools/tagfixes -c bnc.fx
Wrote bnc.fxc
env BIN=/home/shahw/scol//bin MAN=/home/shahw/scol//man LIB=/home/shahw/scol//lib ./mk.csh.rc
env: ./mk.csh.rc: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [csh.rc] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shahw/opinionfinder/software/scol1k/data'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

I have confirmation from a source that the program compiles fine with this version of gcc, however I am not able to track down other platform specific information. Could this be an os specific problem? Do I need to set some environment variable for this to work? Any hint would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

It looks like you’re using the wrong shell. You’re probably using bash whereas the old makefile seems to be assuming csh or similar. Try changing your shell to csh and see if that helps.