Re: No rule to make target `git-daemon'

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2018, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8m7T8k8usGnV_OYp9G=2N4_jdzLT6frme2iBrLnt5iqnw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180720210459.GA18502@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:04 PM, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 09:37:08PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm working from the 2.18 tarball on Solaris 11.3 x86_64. I'm catching
>> the following when building from sources. This appears to be a new
>> issue. It was not present in 2.17.1.
>>
>>     gmake: *** No rule to make target `git-daemon'.  Stop.
>>     gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>     Failed to build Git
>>
>> There does not appear to be an option to control building the daemon:
>>
>>     $ ./configure --help | grep -i daemon
>>     $
>>
>> Any ideas on how to side-step it?
>
> I also don't see this issue, and I didn't see anything between 2.17.1
> and 2.18 that stood out to me as a potential cause of this problem.  Can
> you tell us a bit more about what version of GNU make you're using and
> the configuration you're trying to build (say, the config.mak.autogen)?

Sorry about the late reply. I meant to reply this morning.

My shell script to patch things on Solaris was the cause of the problem.

(If anyone is interested in first class Solaris support then I am happy to help. The patch set needed for the platform has been stable for the last couple of years).

Jeff