From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 01:58:50 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 955F6106566B for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693018FC08 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj8 with SMTP id 8so541766pwj.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:58:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=bnEw7nAp1mankIhhY0+UpOYdKVmRPXo5jeM7r29dxZc=; b=WE/jD1xtbfX7e/QkhLx6GXN9qPmWfV9vIdzJh0iFnuzvWtED5wTtBxpOmOa9BVvfNK GJng382N7/1p2+JvLC1kcA29bPrZijksEnNDVZJ3/7GDQm3Y+MdTZ63zKV2iP2va22AX fGLm2MRruK5ku9ZbLO42idkUbYsP2u7h1T77s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=eC1oucPB4yq5mYmh8WKMxYxa6OFW74tfaZNr8P4B/JFDqoyZQYYR1i69133wl/xkm9 4cdGHORFyOU/OLvXV8fvCtUiVXB8v6AAruKvDlKP3MVzGuoVh2NDfG4nPWEdfw0kEkdk oXZsW19KQNP8bIelrp+HAJSNrpTCyWv/Y0/hg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.60.5 with SMTP id i5mr578417wfa.102.1256695130030; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:58:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <435062.15389.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <435062.15389.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:58:49 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910271858y56da1534q3a7010ee202a0ad8@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: George Sanders Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 01:58:50 -0000 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:33 PM, George Sanders wrote: > > > 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 ? > > Maybe gmake? -- Adam Vande More