Re: FreeBSD make fails on BUILT_SOURCES file

Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:14:14 -0500
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* On 2025 24 Sep 14:15 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 12:05 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > As maintainer of the Hamlib project I am working on a reported issue
> > involving the installed version of make in the distribution.=C2=A0 I ha=
ve
> > verified the issue locally.=C2=A0 The failure is:
> >=20
> > Making all in src
> > make[1]: don't know how to make ./hamlibdatetime.h. Stop
> >=20
> > make[1]: stopped in /home/larry/Hamlib/src
> > *** Error code 1
>=20
> Are you absolutely sure you're using FreeBSD make?  This output sure
> looks like GNU Make output, and I'm pretty sure the different versions
> don't have identical output for errors etc.
>=20
> Try running "make --version" and see what you get.

It doesn't appear to be GNU make:

nate@freebsd:~ $ make --version

nate@freebsd:~ $=20


=46rom the FreeBSD make man page:

HISTORY
     A make command appeared in Version=C2=A07 AT&T UNIX.  This make implem=
entation
     is based on Adam de Boor's pmake program, which was written for Sprite=
 at
     Berkeley.  It was designed to be a parallel distributed make running j=
obs
     on different machines using a daemon called =E2=80=9Ccustoms=E2=80=9D.

     Historically the target/dependency FRC has been used to FoRCe rebuildi=
ng
     (since the target/dependency does not exist ... unless someone creates=
 an
     FRC file).

Its man page is considerably different than the GNU make man page on my
Debian systems.

- Nate

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