Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 02:15:18 GMT From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/179422: "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop" error message should be more intuitive when Makefiles are missing Message-ID: <201306080215.r582FI8X021016@oldred.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201306080220.r582K0xj091544@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 179422 >Category: conf >Synopsis: "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop" error message should be more intuitive when Makefiles are missing >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 08 02:20:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Garrett Cooper >Release: 10-CURRENT >Organization: EMC Isilon >Environment: FreeBSD gran-tourismo.west.isilon.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r+ba9afe9: Fri Apr 19 20:29:10 PDT 2013 gcooper@gran-tourismo.west.isilon.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRAN-TOURISMO amd64 >Description: I forget the exact circumstances for how to reproduce this error, but basically if you either are missing a Makefile in a subdirectory and gets cd'ed to in Makefile.inc1, or via bsd.subdir.mk, you'll run into this problem, and it's not very intuitive: make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop Having a more intuitive error message, or checking for Makefile would be nice. Please note that this issue might be resolved via my proposed changes for conf/179111 . >How-To-Repeat: - cd usr.bin - echo 'SUBDIR+= doesnotexist' >> Makefile - make obj >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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