make install (was: Re: Segment fault..)

[Felix Salfelder]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:55:49AM -0600, LdBeth wrote:
> [..]
>       (cd apps; ${MAKE} install)
> 
> but GNU Make 3.81 install on macOS seems does not like the parenthesis,
> and just says:
> 
> $ make install
> make: `install' is up to date.
> 
> Removing the parenthesis makes the build work again.

Thanks, very good to know.

I dont know what the parenthesis are for. Maybe some other Make needs
them. Possible culprit here is the shell. The idiomatic invocation would
have been "${MAKE} -C apps install".

For now... there's autotools. Instructions are here [1]. I have uploaded
a "dist" tarball including the generated files.

(I'm working on a new build system that will hopefully become the
default. But there is no timeline. It's in the "conf_wip" branch...)

Best wishes
felix

http://gnucap.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/gnucap:manual:autotools