R devel - Oct 1999 - Sun's make "almost" works

I don't know if we still strive for  non-GNU make capability..

Anyway, here a report:

I was using the builddir != srcdir approach on Sun Solaris 2.6,
and normal Sun make (/usr/ccs/bin/make) worked up to producing a correct
R.X11 binary.

It failed when trying to make the first 
src/library/<pkg>/src/<pkg>.so,
namely in eda/src  with

make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `line.o'

where GNU make then did

gcc -I../../../../include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fPIC -g -O2 -c
../../../../../SRC/src/library/eda/src/line.c -o line.o
.......

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>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:
> I don't know if we still strive for  non-GNU make capability..
Yes.  However, my experience is that for non-GNU make we typically need
builddir == srcdir.
> Anyway, here a report:
> I was using the builddir != srcdir approach on Sun Solaris 2.6, and
> normal Sun make (/usr/ccs/bin/make) worked up to producing a correct
> R.X11 binary.
> It failed when trying to make the first
> src/library/<pkg>/src/<pkg>.so, namely in eda/src with
> make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `line.o'
> where GNU make then did
> gcc -I../../../../include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fPIC -g -O2 -c
../../../../../SRC/src/library/eda/src/line.c -o line.o
> .......
Hmm, what is different between the rules in src and the library ones?
Can you try replacing $(SHLIB) by its value in eda's src/Makefile and
then see what happens?

-k
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