Re: 13.0.3 attempts to build platforms/osx on FreeBSD

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:54:58 -0400, Dan Langille said:
> 
> Does anyone else get these errors when building?  They do not affect the outcome - the build does succeed.
> 
> These errors are not particular to my environment. They are seen by other FreeBSD users (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274563) and on the official FreeBSD build servers.
> 
> It's as if we have a switch set, or not set, for that environment. Or perhaps is is detecting OSX when it's FreeBSD.

Yes, I get them on FreeBSD.  That Makefile contains some syntax that FreeBSD's
make cannot understand.  For some reason, it doesn't work with FreeBSD's gmake
port either, even though it works with GNU make on Linux.

The errors happen when configure runs "make clean".  The clean target for the
platforms directory looks for files called Makefile in the subdirectories and
run make for them.

The platforms/osx subdirectory is the only one where the Makefile is in git.
The other platforms subdirectories contain Makefile.in and configure generates
the Makefile only for the current platform (by setting the PFILES variable).
I think that logic needs to be added to configure for the osx platform (or
whatever it is called today) and platforms/osx/Makefile renamed as
platforms/osx/Makefile.in.

__Martin