Re: can't build with GNU make 3.76.1 :)

[Jim Meyering]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Installing coreutils 4.5.9 with make-3.76.1 halts just after you type
> `make', without any output.  Yes, I know 3.76.1 is 6 year old but
> that's what is installed on a Solaris station I have to use these days
> (and it's called `make', not even `gmake').  This `bug' doesn't occur
> in the other packages I recompiled.
...
> The problem comes from the following two lines in Makefile.maint.
>
> prev_version_file ?= .prev-version
> PREV_VERSION := $(shell cat $(prev_version_file))
>
> make-3.76.1 doesn't understand `?='.
> According to NEWS, `?=' is supported "only" since 3.77.
>
> Rewriting the first line as
>
> ifeq ($(origin prev_version_file), undefined)
>   prev_version_file = .prev-version
> endif

Hi Alexandre!

Thank you for the great bug report!
I've done as you suggest.