[tex-live] Build fails for FreeBSD 4.10

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Fri Oct 1 19:59:46 CEST 2004


    However, I also could use the Linux binaries on FreeBSD. 

Interesting.  The BSD kernel is system-call-compatible with the Linux
kernel?  I'm amazed and impressed.

Perhaps there's no need for these binaries, then.  Does anyone think we
need them?  But anyway, in the alternative ...

    But even if I 'touch Makefile.in' the error persists. 

Did you rerun configure?

If you did, another possibility is to run gmake instead of make.  Maybe
it's some other strange difference there.

My further idea is to add an am--refresh: target (that does nothing) to
texinfo/Makefile.in and texinfo/Makefile.  Automake does not really need
to get rerun here.  I don't understand why it thinks it needs to.

Another thing to do is run gmake -rd in texinfo, redirecting
stdout/stderr to a file (it'll be big).  That will say exactly what
dependency is out of date, causing it to do the am--refresh thing.

Probably BSD make has some sort of equivalent option(s), but I don't
know what they are.

Thanks,
karl



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