Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:36:14 -0400 From: Assaf Gordon <agordon@wi.mit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make' behavior in FreeBSD-10 ? Message-ID: <53307B1E.4080704@wi.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <44siq7wjwi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <532F1A58.30702@wi.mit.edu> <44siq7wjwi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Hello, On 03/24/2014 02:06 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> I'm trying to track down an issue in compiling 'autotools' packages that appears in FreeBSD-10 . >> (I'm not a frequent FreeBSD user, so it's possible I'm missing something - any help would be appreciated). > > Is automake specifically what you're trying to build, or are the other > questions relevant as well? > > This is relevant because it sounds as though you are not trying to use > the FreeBSD ports (or pkg; they're really the same thing in terms of > what gets installed) system. That's the usual way such a thing would be > done, and the exceptions are almost entirely people who would be able to > answer such questions for themselves. I'm trying to build a package that uses autotools+automake, and should be built with "./confgure && make". These issues were detected in an package of mine, and were reproducible with the canonical "GNU-Hello" project ( https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ ) . I'd assume that almost any project that uses "automake" would faces these issues. I am not using "pkg" - under the (wrong?) assumption that a portable package written in C and uses "autotools" should be portable enough to be compiled on many different OSes. > >> It is my understanding the FreeBSD-10 switched to a different 'make' (bmake?), which could be the reason for these differences - but I do not know how to fix them. > > Gnu Make has never been standard on BSD. Most variations of make > programs understand slightly different makefile syntax, so they > generally don't run each other's makefiles. I understand that there are inherent differences. To rephrase my previous question, to a very narrow technical issue: Is there a way to make such a "makefile" complete successfully on FreeBSD: === all: non_existing_command ; true === Or will this construct never work on FreeBSD, and must be changed in order to be portable ? Because as a whole, it is a valid shell command, which should succeed (return exit code 0), according to POSIX (if I understand correctly). Thank you, -gordon
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