Re: GNU make does not compile caused by bad makefiles

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> writes:

  >> The SMakefile is there for building on AmigaOS.

  js> What does this mean? Does this mean that I would need to issue
  js> something like a patch in order to remove those broken files?

I guess I'm not sure.  Are the SMakefiles provided in the GNU make
distribution for use on AmigaOS supposed to be used with the smake
you're talking about?

Or is there a separate smake that comes with AmigaOS?

  js> NOTE: even GNU make would (in case configure did not yet run) try
  js> to read these files and stop because these files do not contain
  js> valid make syntax.

GNU make only reads that file if it's being compiled on AmigaOS.

I don't have an Amiga so I can't test it; I assumed that the contents of
the file would be valid if invoked on an Amiga system.

  js> Wouldn't it more wise to rename these files and tell the now rare
  js> AmigaOS users how to get them back?

Hm.  Well, no offense but no one has ever before mentioned this problem
to me, so I'd say that people trying to build GNU make using smake are
similarly rare :-).


I don't object to modifying it per se, but we'd need to give the Amiga
users a chance to speak up and defend the status quo before just
changing it.

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