Hi,
I found some bugs in the most recent make's build script: this pertains
GNU Make version 3.80 (straight from the original release tarball).
I tried to build it under IRIX 6.5 (uname -a gives:
1% uname -a
IRIX64 turtle 6.5 07091542 IP27
)
Since there was NO gnu make available in the platform when I built this
program, I tried to follow the suggestion in README, i.e. to build using
"build.sh" script.
Here are some troubles:
* build.sh.in:33: The definition @REMOTE@ is no longer properly
maintained. Why is this?
* build.sh.in:32: The definition of @LIBOBJS@ here was replaced by
loadavg$U.o (including the literal '$U' substring there!) I guess
this is what happens:
- IRIX does not have the getloadavg() function, so
- autoconf would include the make's version of it, and
- LIBOBJS is set to 'getloadavg$U.o' (with the literal '$U' there,
I saw it in the config.status file!)
- this substitution was transferred to build.sh, and ... voila,
the bug appears.
Suggested repairs
-----------------
on line 33: just replace '@REMOTE@' with 'stub' : I found no other
occurence of '@REMOTE@' in the source tree. Could this just be a remain
from older versions?
on line 32: let it be, but we must insert the following statement before
line 54 of build.sh.in:
extras=`echo "$extras" | sed -e 's|\$U||g'`
in order to remove the '$U' junk from the extras.
Please the UNIX geek make sure that this statement is not "too
sophisticated" for those old shells out there. I'm a bash user, so I tend
to be spoiled by nice bash syntax. :-)
Let me know if these workarounds are not good enough. ;-)
Wirawan
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