[PATCH] Fix build with BSD make.

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Feb 14 09:58:21 PST 2011


On 02/14/11 08:52 AM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 07:29 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 02/14/11 06:18 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr <mailto:matthieu.herrb at laas.fr>> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 04:44:35PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> >>> On 02/13/11 12:51 PM, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>> >>>> $< is not allowed in explicit rules.
>> >>>
>> >>> Solaris make has the same limitation, but since I have to use gnu make due to
>> >>> the sinclude in hw/xfree86/loader/Makefile.am I'd not noticed that
>> >>> yet.
>> >>
>> >> Yes I have a local patch for that too. I don't know how to achieve
>> >> this in a portable way.
>> > 
>> > According to the gnu make manual, sinclude is just a synonym for
>> > "-include".
>>
>> Solaris make doesn't know about "-include" either - as far as I know, there
>> is no conditional "include this file if it exists, else ignore it" directive.
>>
> It's probably a naïve suggestion, removing the need for sinclude by ensuring the
> script
> always produces a valid minimal sdksyms.dep could be a solution.

If "the script" is the configure script, not something run out of the Makefile
with the sinclude in.   That's the problem - if you use a normal include, then
make exits with a "file not found" error before it tries to run the script to
generate sdksyms.dep.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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