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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: makefile regression
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:20:33 +0200
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To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Stromeko.DE>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hi Greg,

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

> For a long time, I've been updating org from git every week or two via:
>
>   update-org () {
>       (cd $HOME/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode && git pull && make)
>   }
>
> and I have emacs pointed at that directory.   This is on NetBSD where
> "make" is BSD make.
>
> Today, I updated again and got:
>
>   make: "/home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode/Makefile" line 6: Need an operator
>   make: "/home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode/Makefile" line 87: Need an operator
>   make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
>   make: stopped in /home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode
>
> and it seems recent changes have required beyond-POSIX-make features.
>
> This seems unfortunate; I don't understand why building org has to be so
> complicated.  

It does *not* have to be.

> If it is complicated, it seems best to use
> autoconf/automake, which already have worked out most of the portability
> issues.
>
> At the very least a dependency on GNU make should be documented, if that
> is indeed an intentional decision by the community.   (I haven't seen
> any discussion, but I confess to not quite keeping up with with
> emacs-orgmode traffic.)

I will let Achim reply to your issue here.  I agree we should stick to
something as simple and portable as possible.  We will document all the
changes in this area for the 7.9 release.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien