[Lynx-dev] Re: non-pkgsrc emacs or clone (fwd)

[Todd Vierling]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Stef Caunter wrote:

> I started this thread because *not only* the lynx browser but
> emacs also won't build with the supplied stock make and this is *less good 
> than
> before*.
>
> Follow the thread: it's not lynx, and not emacs, it's NetBSD 2.0 make that
> is the problem.

No.  Read the POSIX make standard.  Follow the thread:  It is the lynx
makefile that is the problem.  ".h" is NOT a standard default in .SUFFIXES;
it MUST be specified explicitly, even if it "just works" out of luck because
of nonstandard defaults on some OS's or older versions of some OS's.

I can't vouch for emacs as I haven't seen the technical details of that
problem.  If it is also related to the build assuming that .SUFFIXES
includes ".h", then its makefiles are also broken.

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