Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK 1.1.14 compile problems (Irix 6.3)

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 07:44:23 -0500, gtk-list@redhat.com (Owen Taylor) wrote:
> Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl> writes:
>> You are using SGI make, which does not understand some of the Makefile
>> rules generated by the autoconf/automake/libtool combination. Try using
>> GNU make. If you don't want to compile GNU make yourself, you can download
>> a pre-compiled binary for IRIX 6.3 from my "GCC for IRIX" page:
>> http://www-it.et.tudelft.nl/~erik/gcc
> 
> If somebody wants to debug what SGI make doesn't understand,
> that would be a positive step. The makefiles that "make dist"
> makes are supposed to be non-gnu-specific.

A couple of weeks ago I have heard rumours (on the egcs mailinglist, IIRC)
that this will be fixed in a new version of autoconf. I just checked that
there are new versions of both autoconf and automake, haven't tried them
yet.

I don't know which version you use for doing a "make dist", but my
experience is that SGI make has problems with Makefiles generated with
autoconf 2.12 and automake 1.3. The problem is in the line:

DEPS_MAGIC:= $(shell mkdir .deps > /dev/null 2>&1 || :)

Which is generated by automake. As a workaround, you can use the
"--include-deps" flag with automake. This will disable the automatic
generation of dependencies in the .deps directories, which isn't useful
anyway if you're just compiling GTK.


Erik

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