From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Troxel Subject: makefile regression Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:43:52 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWqJe-0001d0-35 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 10:44:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWqJX-0003Ad-IB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 10:44:01 -0400 Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]:61536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWqJX-00039Z-EY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 10:43:55 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Achim Gratz --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain 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. 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.) Greg --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk+7pigACgkQ+vesoDJhHiX2xgCfemxqU9ClunkSc1A8zPay/z04 hCQAoIwFqHilW5/VRUYI3plnELWc1hpa =dLli -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--