Re: FreeBSD make

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> I don't know if it's worthwhile to support FreeBSD make..
>
> I have no idea how to keep it from looping without this patch, after
> running the rules for vcl-tmp it always seems to want to update
> stamp-vcl .. seems like timestamp files don't work with it at all.

Are you saying that you expect make to operate properly based on 
side-effects? If vcl-tmp is not specified as a build target, is it not 
a side-effect?  Why should make assume that any other files will be 
updated except for explicit targets?

Bob

> (No, I don't want _this_ patch applied.)
> With pmake on linux things seem to work fine.
>
> --- Makefile.am 28 Dec 2004 13:50:21 -0000      1.138
> +++ Makefile.am 11 Mar 2005 16:35:44 -0000
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
> ## read-only $(top_srcdir), then when the two stamp-vcls differ, distcheck
> ## will try to update the one in the read-only source tree it makes.
> MKSTAMP = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/config/mkstamp
> -$(top_srcdir)/stamp-vcl: vcl-tmp clean-ltmain-sh ChangeLog
> +$(top_srcdir)/stamp-vcl: ChangeLog
> vcl-tmp:
>         @set dummy `$(MKSTAMP) < $(top_srcdir)/ChangeLog`; shift; \
>         echo "$$1" > vcl.tmp; \
>
>
>
> However, I think this patch below should be checked in (HEAD,
> branch-2-0).  OK?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> --- configure.ac        12 Dec 2004 16:24:28 -0000      1.62
> +++ configure.ac        11 Mar 2005 16:35:44 -0000
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
> AC_SUBST([M4SH], ['$(AUTOM4TE) --language=m4sh'])
>
> dnl Make sure config.status is regenerated when the version timestamp changes
> -AC_SUBST([CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES], ['$(top_builddir)/stamp-vcl'])
> +AC_SUBST([CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES], ['$(top_srcdir)/stamp-vcl'])
>
> ## ------------------------------- ##
> ## Libtool specific configuration. ##

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