Re: Current status of OpenBSD BEAST

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 chris.wareham@btopenworld.com wrote:

> Nedko Arnaudov <nedko@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > Making all in docs
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs'
> > Making all in generated
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs/generated'
> > make[4]: Entering directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs/generated'
> > make[4]: *** No rule to make target `beast.1', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
> > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs/generated'
> > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs/generated'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nedko/cvs/anoncvs.gnome.org/beast/docs'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >
>
> Are you using the BSD make that comes with OpenBSD, or GNU make?
> If not using GNU make, then you could be running into problems
> with the autoconf generated Makefiles. Autoconf quite often
> produces Makefiles that only work with GNU make.

for beast, it's not only autoconf. beast has a hard dependancy
on GNU make, i'm even using GNU specific hand written rules.


>
> Chris
>

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ciaoTJ