Re: superfluous GNUism in the makefile

>>>>> Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> writes:

 >> At the very least, the Makefile works with pmake(1).  I'm not quite
 >> fluent in the various Makes, but I've got the impression that $<
 >> will work for with any modern Make.

 > NetBSD make at least doesn't set $< in explicit rules; nor does POSIX
 > make.  This is documented and intentional.  The manual for FreeBSD
 > make doesn't say one way or another whether $< (alternatively spelled
 > ${.IMPSRC}) is defined in explicit rules, or if it is what value it
 > has.  Attached is a transcript of an attempt to build Scheme48 using
 > NetBSD make.  The last make incantation happened after I changed $^
 > to $< in the makefile, which, as you can see, had no effect.

 > (`pmake' is the name of the ancestor of FreeBSD make, NetBSD make,
 > OpenBSD make, and probably several others.  Its descendants are all
 > fairly similar to one another.  I don't know whether the original
 > pmake is still maintained separately.)

	I've taken the package from:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/pmake

	I don't know whether there's a naming clash or not.

	This particular version apparently supports both $< in explicit
	rules and VPATH.

 > Script started on Mon Aug 17 18:16:37 2009
 > smalltalk$ cd /tmp
 > smalltalk$ curl -s -O http://s48.org/1.8/scheme48-1.8.tgz

	I'm in doubt it'll change anything, but could you please try the
	current development version of Scheme48 instead?

[...]
 > smalltalk$ make
[...]
 > ld -o c/srfi-27.so  -shared
 > ld: no input files
 > *** Error code 1

 > Stop.
 > make: stopped in /tmp/scheme48-1.8

	What's the name and version of this particular make?  It may be
	worth noting in the documentation that there's only a limited
	support for it.

 > smalltalk$ ^D
 > Script done on Mon Aug 17 18:18:58 2009

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