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Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile

Subject: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile

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3 messages between Nov 16, 2007 and Nov 16, 2007.

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Guido Ostkamp· Nov 16, 2007, 22:59 UTC · lore

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?

If yes, then I think this should be mentioned in README or INSTALL. If not, then the Makefile or configure needs to be fixed.

Regards

Guido

Pierre Habouzit· Nov 16, 2007, 23:29 UTC · re: Guido Ostkamp · lore

Re: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile

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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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

Junio C Hamano· Nov 16, 2007, 23:49 UTC · re: Guido Ostkamp · lore

Re: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile

Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm> writes:

> Question: Do you require the GNU make utility for Git?
>
> If yes, then I think this should be mentioned in README or INSTALL.

I think that would be a sensible thing to do. Please make it happen.