Samba 4 buildsystem; patch in progress

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Montag, den 07.01.2008, 11:44 +0100 schrieb Björn Jacke:
> On 2008-01-06 at 14:10 +0100 Jelmer Vernooij sent off:
> > The problem is that while 99% of the developers may be running GNU
> >  make, far less than 99% of the build farm hosts run it. Moving to GNU
> >  make would mean losing some of the more exotic build farm hosts.
> I have to disagree here. Most of the more exotic build farm hosts do 
> have gmake installed and I explicitly set MAKE to gmake on most of 
> the exotic hosts that I maintain gmake because the system's make 
> failed to work in the past already with S3 and/or S4.
What prompted me to say this was:

dp:~% grep GNU_MAKE /home/build/master/data/build.samba4.*.log | grep no
| wc -l
12
dp:~% grep GNU_MAKE /home/build/master/data/build.samba4.*.log | grep
yes | wc -l
19

That may include some dead hosts though.

> I started to clean up the S3 Makefile in 2006 but that work stalled 
> immediately after the dependency cleanup was done, which was not 
> possible to do nicely with pure portable make and not 100% portable 
> make was not accepted and not checked in. The implicit pattern rule 
> was the feature required, while this is not even an GNU only 
> extension, I'd like to have seen that checked in just for a test to 
> see which hosts really break with that feature being used.
> 
> Requiring GNU make would ease the cleaning up of the Makefile really a 
> lot. I would very much like to see that happen.
I agree it would be really really nice to be able to rely on GNU make.
If it would be feasible to install it on those other build farm hosts,
would it be acceptable to require users to install GNU make? 

Cheers,

Jelmer

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