On 06/24/2010 02:06 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Thursday 24 Jun 2010 06:22:19 Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> Fixed in http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/ea12dc0
>>
>> Unfortunately this change breaks the build on my Debian testing box:
>>
>> $ git checkout ipxe/master
>> $ make --version
>> GNU Make 3.81
>> $ make
>
> And on mine too, if I do a "make veryclean" first. The problem is that
> things
> like $(PARSEROM) show up in the dependency lists for some targets; since
> PARSEROM is defined as "$(PERL) ./util/parserom.pl", this means that there is
> now an unsatisfiable dependency upon the non-existent target "perl".
> (Previously there would have been a spurious but harmless dependency upon
> /usr/bin/perl, which at least exists.)
>
I think the Perl interpreter could (should) be interpreted as a system
utility, which shouldn't have explicit dependencies, any more than, say
"cp" has dependencies on it.
-hpa
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