Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:02:07 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what is special about the 'git' Makefile ? Message-ID: <d873d5be0910271902q2b78b2b2ob396331d5f9f3871@mail.gmail.com>
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George Sanders wrote: >I've been doing this dance: You haven't been out on the floor nearly often enough, it seems. Better dust off those blue suede shoes. :) >../configure ; make ; make install >for about ten years now. Sometimes there are some little issues, but nothing too crazy. >I tried to build 'git' from source today, however, and it doesn't behave like anything I've >ever seen... >I do the ./configure and it completes without errors: ... >and then run 'make' ... >"Makefile", line 206: Need an operator >"Makefile", line 244: Missing dependency operator ... >So ... what in the world is going on here ? Er, you're using FreeBSD make(1) when you should be using GNU gmake? There is a FreeBSD Port for this software in devel/git, and even if you don't want to use it, the Makefiles and patches usually provide a good guide to modifications that you may need to make to get it to work on FreeBSD.
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