Comment by fn-mote
8 hours ago
Knowledge of cc has never been needed? What an optimist! You must never have had headers installed in a place where the compiler (or Makefile author) didn’t expect them. Same problems with the libraries. Worse when the routine you needed to link was in a different library (maybe an arch-specific optimized lib).
That post is only true in the most vacuous sense.
“A similar project” discovered where, on BITNET?
I feel like this really just says your tools are bad and leaky?
The library problems you described are nothing that can't be solved using symlinks. A bad solution? Sure, but it works, and doesn't require me to understand cc. (Though when I needed to solve this problem, it only took me about 15 minutes and a man page to learn how to do it. `gcc -v --help` is, however, unhelpful.)
"A similar project" as in: this isn't the first piece of software ever written, and many previous examples can be found on the computer you're currently using. Skim through them until you find one with a source file structure you like, then ruthlessly cannibalise its build script.