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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2019 00:09:48 -0400
From:      Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>
To:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Phil Shafer <phil@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345860 - vendor/Juniper/libxo
Message-ID:  <2C38A6BB-9915-4BC1-88BD-EA6919FFFED5@juniper.net>
In-Reply-To: <D083E2F3-E779-484A-A6D9-F4F4D8425A18@gmail.com>
References:  <201904032230.x33MUKRn029430@repo.freebsd.org> <D083E2F3-E779-484A-A6D9-F4F4D8425A18@gmail.com>

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On 3 Apr 2019, at 23:07, Enji Cooper wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I’m guessing `GMAKE` needs to be replaced with 
> `MAKE`..?

GMAKE is set inside the import script, where MAKE=gmake is for 
configure.

> Also, why does a configure script need gmake? It seems like the 
> snippets that make libxo should be made more portable with autoconf, 
> if that’s the case.

configure uses gmake to build dependencies, but assumes "make" means 
gmake (${MAKE-make}).  When it finds real make instead it will complain:

     Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
     for automatic dependency tracking.  Try re-running configure with 
the
     '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
     the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency 
tracking).
     See `config.log' for more details

The autoconf tools are increasingly linux-centric, so the MAKE=gmake is 
needed for BSD platforms.  Longer term, I will probably move away from 
them, as more problems are appearing.  For example, libtool is not 
naming test executables "lt-text_01.test", which makes the output of 
"make test" different under linux (since error messages include argv[0]. 
  So now I need to call xo_program() to explicitly set the name.  
Eventually cost(work-arounds) > cost(requiring-bmake).

Thanks,
  Phil



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