Make-related issues

[jjd06]

I'm emailing you because this is specific to my repository and isn't urgent as I've worked around the issue.
I noticed in the logs of the latest dry-run that all of the compilations have failed, due to a missing "step_world_main.h".

Since all 5 versions share a main() function, I refactored it out of the files into a separate .h file.

However, this file isn't being found by the make scripts. I had to duplicate the main() into each cpp file to make sure that the makefile will compile things correctly (hopefully). Perhaps others will have this issue.

I have a question on the hpce-2018-cw3 deliverables. I am working in a macOS environment and adjusted the makefile.

It is also the makefile that is included in my final commit summited. Would this be used in the testing/marking in any way? In that case, I will revert the makefile to the original for the submission.

Thank you very much.

Note that my testing scripts don't care what's in your makefiles; they don't use them. Feel free to do whatever you like with them, but equally don't rely on them for assessment.

[jixishan]

Does this mean that we cannot use libraries like tbb, since they'd need to be linked through eg the makefile?

[jjd06]

No TBB for this one (sorry), but you do have other options if you wish to explore them. Anything that requires compiler flags to be added is out of bounds to you due to the above.