Subject: Re: bug#17060: libguile install-data-hook target fails on BSD make
From: Andy Wingo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:06:27 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi :)

I think we are happy to look at patches to support non-GNU make but
without follow-through from a reporter we aren't going to make efforts
in this direction; too many other things to do :)

If you can track down the issue, please let us know and we'll see what
we can do.  Mark, Ludo, feel free to re-open if you feel like this is
not the right way to go about things.

Cheers,

Andy

On Sat 29 Mar 2014 14:27, [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> The failing target is 'install-data-hook' in libguile/Makefile.am.
>> It prints this on the console: (modulo whitespace)
>>
>>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
>>       /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so.29-gdb.scm
>>
>> Notice that the source filename is missing, suggesting that '$<' is the
>> empty string.  It then fails with the following error message:
>>
>>   install: : No such file or directory
>
> AFAIK ‘$<’ is standard make, and it’s used in other places in the file.
> So there must be a subtle syntax variation that BSD make doesn’t
> understand here.
>
> wgl: Could you edit libguile/Makefile.in, remove the 6 comment lines
> starting with “## We want to install”, and then try again ‘make
> install’?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ludo’.