Solaris make for 0.63 failing
Kurt Hornik
Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:06:37 +0100 (CET)
>>>>> Thomas Lumley writes:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>> >You absolutely need GNU make, and on Solaris 2.6 you also need not to
>> >use make-3.77 (the current version) as that has a bug which affects
>> >this. `They' are using features found in few makes.
>>
>> I seem to be using GNU make 3.77. Is this a bug that is in both the
>> Sun make and the most recent GNU make, or is the R makefile doing
>> something wrong?
> It (appears to be) a bug in GNU make 3.77, which is not expanding the
> wildcards correctly. It is not a bug in Sun make, it's just that
> Makefile uses a feature that Sun make doesn't have. Whether this is
> 'something wrong' is open to debate (though not very interesting
> debate). A fix of the Makefile to operate with everyone's favorite
> make is certainly a goal.
I just added the following to `INSTALL':
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
USING MAKE
To compile R, you currently most likely need GNU make. (To be more
precise, you need a version of make which accepts shell wildcards in
dependencies.) On Solaris 2.6 in particular, you need a version of
GNU make different from 3.77 (the current one); 3.76.1 works fine.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Hope this does for the time being.
Note: I don't necessarily think that there is only GNU make, and that
all of its features should be used. If I did, the Makefiles would look
rather different (and certain problems would be gone immediately). The
only `feature' used is shell wildcards in target dependencies (not in
variables, which definitely is a GNU make feature). One can easily
provide explicit lists of file names instead, but that is a cause of
potential inconsistency that I'd like to avoid for the time being.
-k
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