Re: 13.0.3 attempts to build platforms/osx on FreeBSD

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, at 10:21 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> 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.

I now wonder if this affects other build platforms.

You know what would be useful right now. A regression testing host.  Where users could push their build results. Yes, I know it died and was never brought back. It would still be nice to have.
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