At 14:24 Uhr -0500 20.01.2003, Gregory Seidman wrote:
Oh it works most of the time... only you hit the cases where it will fail. Like, when compiling objective .c - the plain GNU make 3.79.1 has no default rule for .m files. So back in the NeXT days and also later at Apple they added that, together with various other NeXTStep/Mac OS X/Objective C specific functionality. This affects for example XFree86 - with a plain vanilla GNU make, it will not build right.Max Horn sez: } At 9:34 Uhr -0500 20.01.2003, Gregory Seidman wrote: } >I have a build system that depends on some of the features in GNU make } >3.80, but MacOS X 10.1.5 (which I am still running) and Fink (even } >unstable) still have only 3.79.1. I'd like to make a .deb from the latest } >make source so that I can manage it with Fink, but I don't know how to go } >about it. Any thoughts? } } You could contact the package maintainer (i.e. me) and ask for an } update. I have so far not updated to make 3.8 because there was no } apparent need for it, and it would require me to careful port over } all the mods made to our make 3.79.1. These mods are the same as the } Apple make has, and are required for various reasons.It takes all kinds of mods? Really? I downloaded the source and did a compile and install, and it seems to be working fine from straight GNU source. (I installed it over make 3.79.1, expecting that the same file names would be overwritten and, therefore, an apt-get remove make would get rid of it.)
That's a good reason I guess, I could have used something like that for various build systems I created in the past, too.} Since with you there is now a reason to update to 3.80, I will } consider doing it. Out of curiosity, can you tell me which feature } you need in 3.80 that is not in 3.79.1 ? The primary feature is the MAKEFILE_LIST variable. It lets me have a nice hierarchical build system with a single instance of make, all without being dependent on particular directory names.
Max
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