# Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile 3 messages from 2007-11-16 to 2007-11-16. Participants: Guido Ostkamp, Pierre Habouzit, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10903 ## Guido Ostkamp, 2007-11-16 22:59 Subject: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0711162353170.7281%40bianca.dialin.t-online.de ``` 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, 2007-11-16 23:29 Subject: Re: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile Message-ID: <20071116232955.GA22075@artemis.corp> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071116232955.GA22075%40artemis.corp In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:59:48PM +0000, Guido Ostkamp wrote: > 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 -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-11-16 23:49 Subject: Re: Solaris 'make' & Git Makefile Message-ID: <7v3av5ycnh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v3av5ycnh.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Guido Ostkamp 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. ```