conf/179422: "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop" error message should be more intuitive when Makefiles are missing
Garrett Cooper
yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Sat Jun 8 02:20:00 UTC 2013
>Number: 179422
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop" error message should be more intuitive when Makefiles are missing
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 08 02:20:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Garrett Cooper
>Release: 10-CURRENT
>Organization:
EMC Isilon
>Environment:
FreeBSD gran-tourismo.west.isilon.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r+ba9afe9: Fri Apr 19 20:29:10 PDT 2013 gcooper at gran-tourismo.west.isilon.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRAN-TOURISMO amd64
>Description:
I forget the exact circumstances for how to reproduce this error, but basically if you either are missing a Makefile in a subdirectory and gets cd'ed to in Makefile.inc1, or via bsd.subdir.mk, you'll run into this problem, and it's not very intuitive:
make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop
Having a more intuitive error message, or checking for Makefile would be nice. Please note that this issue might be resolved via my proposed changes for conf/179111 .
>How-To-Repeat:
- cd usr.bin
- echo 'SUBDIR+= doesnotexist' >> Makefile
- make obj
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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