From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 02:02:09 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 7EB61106566B for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1979B8FC16 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so341037ewy.43 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=k1twwdsKPQ4gqXP7S+t31Lb3TInBey7FgbKVkjnFsNg=; b=MVqc1nfCaxsG1PlVZnMvc9PPpkXft/dShBIrjJ3VyYej8q8Nr1jCrs0l1/X7lGwYnH 4HBDn7L7QLc6+J2IrBhoYLeS7tedVIbyt4sRIZxrcBB4Yzj8XXBSCRuDiSFp0ASHu5nq Ph/NY6KOWfJP2iQOhS4PuEmll5c4F4gAMp7W8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=d4zrHKPsn71MIxalwkbDiZv7yalCUdsl+XvQEA1VARO0jpIdg504LvgM304xjdOu+Z tzCxg1IB414JGZlJJS485u+ibMN7J9awfSXbtLakTG1kf5aARnFohoSdml+dQHQ4axu5 0S8bT8DBQd5/Gr01+PdRpbNhiljxyKeyf4iJU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.88.85 with SMTP id z63mr3673657wee.129.1256695327876; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:02:07 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: George Sanders Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 02:02:09 -0000 George Sanders wrote: >I've been doing this dance: You haven't been out on the floor nearly often enough, it seems. Better dust off those blue suede shoes. :) >../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: ... >and then run 'make' ... >"Makefile", line 206: Need an operator >"Makefile", line 244: Missing dependency operator ... >So ... what in the world is going on here ? Er, you're using FreeBSD make(1) when you should be using GNU gmake? There is a FreeBSD Port for this software in devel/git, and even if you don't want to use it, the Makefiles and patches usually provide a good guide to modifications that you may need to make to get it to work on FreeBSD.