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From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
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Subject: can't make depend on FreeBSD (lesstif-0.79)
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Hi,

Regarding building lesstif-0.79 from sources: make depend won't work

I recently triend 'make depend' on FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I was getting
messages like 'srcdir: not found', but meanwhile, srcdir=. was at the top
of the maakefile.

I think where this was conking out was where $(srcdir) was nested inside
another ${ .... $(srcdir)$.c }, etc., in the lib/Xm subdirectory.  I think
this may be because BSD make doesn't handle nested variables as well as
GNU make.  I think the only solution would be to download GNU make and
install it as gmake to differentiate it from the make on my system.

Any suggestions appreciated.

   Donn

   email: dmm125@bellatlantic.net
   phone: 412 547-9089