On 08/30/14 12:24, Frederick Akalin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     I don't assume that make is bsdmake, only that it is something 
> POSIX-compliant.
>     But you're right that I should use ${MAKE}, in case it isn't in the path. 
>  (I
>     don't know if anyone actually gets this right, but if make is not in the 
> path
>     and is invoked via /path/to/make, then ${MAKE} should be "/path/to/make" 
> and
>     not just "make".)
> 
> My mistake, I confused the release Makefile with the one used during normal
> development (i.e., the one in the repository). I'm running into some 
> additional
> errors with that one -- will send out a separate post when I figure them out.

If you're not running FreeBSD, you probably won't be able to use the Makefiles
from the SVN tree.  This is normal -- those Makefiles are there to make my life
easier as a developer, not with any expectation that they will be useful for
anyone else.

>     Can you try the attached patch?
> 
> Works for me (with both make and bsdmake)! Thanks.

Great, thanks!

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

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