Re: [gentoo-user] Update to make breaks lots of things...
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this is Gentoo-specific, but I've noticed that a recent update to make is causing makefile breakage. For example, trying to build a Linux 2.6.28 kernel: beta linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 # make oldconfig Makefile:442: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. Apparently the authors of make are cracking down on things that have been allowed for many years. As a result, some Makefiles don't work anymore. At least for me, that means that make now needs to be slotted so that I can keep an older version around that's compatible with older Makefiles. Is there any chance of that? [I don't suppose anybody knows off-hand which version of make introduced all the breakage?] I haven't encountered this yet. Which version of make are you running? -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Update to make breaks lots of things...
On Monday, August 8 at 18:30 (+), Grant Edwards said: I don't think this is Gentoo-specific, but I've noticed that a recent update to make is causing makefile breakage. For example, trying to build a Linux 2.6.28 kernel: beta linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 # make oldconfig Makefile:442: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. Apparently the authors of make are cracking down on things that have been allowed for many years. As a result, some Makefiles don't work anymore. At least for me, that means that make now needs to be slotted so that I can keep an older version around that's compatible with older Makefiles. Is there any chance of that? [I don't suppose anybody knows off-hand which version of make introduced all the breakage?] Have not experienced this (GNU Make 3.82).
