Re: [Gcl-devel] Building GCL 2.6.1 on FreeBSD 4.8

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  You need gmake on FreeBSD.  We should put together a build
FAQ ....

Take care,

Chris Hall <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to build GCL 2.6.1-37 on FreeBSD 4.8, so I try:
> 
> cjh$> ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-readline --enable-ansi
> cjh$> make
> "makefile", line 19: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> cjh$>
> 
> Lines 16 - 22 of makefile
> -------------------( start
> GCL_DVI=gcl-tk.dvi gcl-si.dvi gcl.dvi
> GCL_HTML=gcl-si_toc.html gcl-tk_toc.html gcl_toc.html
> 
> -include makedefs  <-- Line 19
> 
> 
> BINDIR  = bin
> -------------------( end
> 
> I've saved and looked at the configure standard and error output, and
> see no obvious problems - FreeBSD seems to be correctly detected and
> provided for.  (The configure standard and error output is attached).
> 
> Doing the exact same configure from the same tarball on Debian produces
> the same lines in the makefile, and the build works wonderfully.
> 
> So it seems that make on BSD behaves differently than on GNU/Linux.  I
> don't have root on the BSD box (that is why --prefix=$HOME), so I can't
> change the system-wide make files, though I have looked at
> /etc/defaults/make.conf and see nothing specific to includes there.
> 
> I *have* been able to build other GNU packages on my BSD account, so I
> find this somewhat puzzling.
> 
> Have I overlooked some obvious step in building on FreeBSD?  I can't
> seem to find any BSD-specific info in any of the readme files.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Mahalo (thanks) and Aloha,
> +Chris
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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