Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/40448: [bmake bug] BSD make cannot find system mks (on new releases) Message-ID: <200207111850.g6BIo3mJ085702@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/40448; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bin/40448: [bmake bug] BSD make cannot find system mks (on new releases) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 04:52:14 +1000 (EST) On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alex Dupre wrote: > >Description: > On fresh installs of FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE (I tried with a 20020704-JPSNAP) bmake > has a different behaviour (I think it's a bug). It seems it cannot find system > makefiles, like bsd.lib.mk, located in /usr/share/mk. This avoids correct > building of some ports (until now I discovered pdflib and gd2...for the first > it's enough to use gmake, for the second I had to put complete paths to find > the mks), but I think it's more serious than that. > > >How-To-Repeat: > I tried to run "make -f bsd.lib.mk -d A" on an "old" machine and on the new > one, from my home dir. The outputs become to differ here: I think this _was_ a bug. I think "make -f foo" says to search for the makefile named "foo" in the current directory only. It was searched for in system directories, so bsd.lib.mk was found. This was fixed in rev.1.35.2.5 of make/main.c. "foo" is still searched for in the object directory. So is "./foo". The search order is undocumented. This is probably related to the bug that .depend is searched for in the current directory and the object directory in an undocumented order. Stale .depend files in the current directory can cause very confusing problems. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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