From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 01:46:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60DB1065692 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gosand1982@yahoo.com) Received: from n14.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n14.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 800E08FC19 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [68.142.194.244] by n14.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2009 01:33:04 -0000 Received: from [76.13.13.26] by t2.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2009 01:33:03 -0000 Received: from [67.195.9.83] by t3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2009 01:33:03 -0000 Received: from [67.195.9.111] by t3.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2009 01:33:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2009 01:33:03 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 602515.63856.bm@omp115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 16346 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Oct 2009 01:33:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1256693583; bh=2Rk5CHuSE6QbAw47ZbGE/tzNWmndVqcxoYr/pBnSHVw=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PZunmwJLKCaW831kkFCFcYQ8tKmP8afH16ONpG3gqAixv45MausAturNcV0Mnk7dkw2q8xodw1046IqoqmFQUesW9a2hzCZsuFXSPy0SlxV2WMUPQUCUxayy+GxRhDvEYwjJO7d/lJ0brCfZJRqkJ8NawGBGvPe/Hyllvrs6bNM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=D7LtSsAnAQK+Y1zc1Hy0J1U1jdZapZLNWxOoG4d+EmSPO12v2TPcOTv/9ZV4lcOB0VNfYbP3BheSiDvbi5gVsZDKNSPuk41F8UXNlXvJJcpQq6nHsV+fK7Pk6BY4dz5SPcfYBXJJZW/v5zpscNsqv/4pMBDM7llz+zMSbrVaZb8=; Message-ID: <435062.15389.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: aZ.Ns8kVM1luvXlbStp6MEZ0sk1fGhfnku5QzuQNYl_JHk.B03jzoNwljzudC.KBtGvqossbUjUnbZA7kuw42k7HAQhdC6auXXUfp7X0tZpR1KAGivHGawMu8Dg6qlw7woIrYJHcL8DbbUSp.1sZ.zfUcgn38x.oiardpWNhpfRwU9.Tx2Ebk5sXFrG_AGKH1iBCLSBjqxDwNlBfk3DDeZlEQ_NaRbQoc2XDw75Q8QzGmroUPuWnYVsSpCr1rkYeCknG Received: from [71.63.232.32] by web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:03 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/182.10 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:03 -0700 (PDT) From: George Sanders To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: what is special about the 'git' Makefile ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:46:54 -0000 I've been doing this dance: ../configure ; make ; make install for about ten years now. Sometimes there are some little issues, but nothing too crazy. I tried to build 'git' from source today, however, and it doesn't behave like anything I've ever seen... I do the ./configure and it completes without errors: checking for mkstemps... yes checking for library containing mkstemps... none required checking Checking for POSIX Threads with '-pthread'... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating config.mak.autogen and then run 'make' ... "Makefile", line 206: Need an operator "Makefile", line 244: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 247: Need an operator "Makefile", line 250: Need an operator "Makefile", line 273: Need an operator "Makefile", line 286: Need an operator "Makefile", line 395: Need an operator (snip about 8 or 10 PAGES of the above) "Makefile", line 1293: Need an operator "Makefile", line 1294: warning: duplicate script for target "ifdef" ignored "Makefile", line 1295: warning: duplicate script for target "ifdef" ignored "Makefile", line 1296: Need an operator "Makefile", line 1298: Need an operator "Makefile", line 1301: Need an operator "Makefile", line 1303: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1305: Need an operator "Makefile", line 1307: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 1309: Need an operator Error expanding embedded variable. So ... what in the world is going on here ?