Re: 13.0.3 attempts to build platforms/osx on FreeBSD

>>>>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:52:49 -0400, Dan Langille said:
> 
> 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.

Yes, it probably affects Solaris, depending on which make is used.

__Martin