Re: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Nov 16, 2007, 23:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20071116232955.GA22075@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711162353170.7281@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:59:48PM +0000, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

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> Hello Junio, *,
> 
> the Solaris 'make' utility cannot handle the 'Makefile' that is delivered 
> with Git or generated by Git's configure.
> 
> A Solaris make run breaks around line 138.
> 
> Question: Do you require the GNU make utility for Git?

  Well, the fact that solaris make doesn't understands @ is well... no
comments. But we also require ifdef/endif to work, and bsd make doesn't
grok that e.g. SO yes, I believe GNU Make is somehow required. The
Makefiles don't use double expansions and such tricks, so even quite
antiquated GNU Make versions should work fine

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