'make' behavior in FreeBSD-10 ?

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 24/03/2014 19:36, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 03/24/2014 02:06 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to track down an issue in compiling 'autotools' packages that appears in FreeBSD-10 .
>>> (I'm not a frequent FreeBSD user, so it's possible I'm missing something - any help would be appreciated).
>>
>> Is automake specifically what you're trying to build, or are the other
>> questions relevant as well?
>>
>> This is relevant because it sounds as though you are not trying to use
>> the FreeBSD ports (or pkg; they're really the same thing in terms of
>> what gets installed) system. That's the usual way such a thing would be
>> done, and the exceptions are almost entirely people who would be able to
>> answer such questions for themselves.
> 
> I'm trying to build a package that uses autotools+automake, and should be built with "./confgure && make".

Just use "./configure && gmake" and you'll be fine. The assumption that
make == gmake is simply wrong on FreeBSD. And the syntactical differences
are so huge that only the most primitive makefiles can be made compatible
without a complete recode.

> To rephrase my previous question, to a very narrow technical issue:
> Is there a way to make such a "makefile" complete successfully on FreeBSD:

Yes, use gmake.

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