From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 06:42:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14657FDF for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.server1.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [82.193.243.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C33F12 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AprilRyan.norad (unknown [5.158.138.185]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.server1.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9794A7E9D9; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:42:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5331254C.5050301@bsdforen.de> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:42:20 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Assaf Gordon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make' behavior in FreeBSD-10 ? References: <532F1A58.30702@wi.mit.edu> <44siq7wjwi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <53307B1E.4080704@wi.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <53307B1E.4080704@wi.mit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:42:30 -0000 On 24/03/2014 19:36, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > On 03/24/2014 02:06 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to track down an issue in compiling 'autotools' packages that appears in FreeBSD-10 . >>> (I'm not a frequent FreeBSD user, so it's possible I'm missing something - any help would be appreciated). >> >> Is automake specifically what you're trying to build, or are the other >> questions relevant as well? >> >> This is relevant because it sounds as though you are not trying to use >> the FreeBSD ports (or pkg; they're really the same thing in terms of >> what gets installed) system. That's the usual way such a thing would be >> done, and the exceptions are almost entirely people who would be able to >> answer such questions for themselves. > > I'm trying to build a package that uses autotools+automake, and should be built with "./confgure && make". Just use "./configure && gmake" and you'll be fine. The assumption that make == gmake is simply wrong on FreeBSD. And the syntactical differences are so huge that only the most primitive makefiles can be made compatible without a complete recode. > To rephrase my previous question, to a very narrow technical issue: > Is there a way to make such a "makefile" complete successfully on FreeBSD: Yes, use gmake. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?