Re: Trunk: Build error on FreeBSD

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Sat, Sep 22 2012, Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 09/18/2012 07:04 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>>  bootstrap: bootstrap-clean FRC
>> -    cd $(srcdir) && { ./autogen.sh || autogen/copy_autogen; }
>> -    if [ -x config.status ]; then \
>> -        ./config.status --recheck && \
>> -        ./config.status; \
>> -    else \
>> -        $(srcdir)/configure $(CONFIGURE_FLAGS); \
>> -    fi
>> +    cd $(srcdir) && { ./autogen.sh || autogen/copy_autogen; } && touch 
>> configure
>> +    $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) Makefile
>>      $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info all
>
> Sorry, I don't understand why that change would help, or would work.
>
> "bootstrap-clean" removes Makefile,
It doesn't.

> so the command "$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) Makefile"
> would be run without Makefile being present.  This won't work
> unless GNU Make is being used.
>
> Also, I don't see why the "touch configure" is needed.

Probably, because no configure was generated (as Andreas remarked).
> autogen.sh (or autogen/copy_autogen) should create 'configure'.

I actually test my changes.

Wolfgang