what is special about the 'git' Makefile ?

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:33 PM, George Sanders <gosand1982 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> I've been doing this dance:
>
> ../configure ; make ; make install
>
> for about ten years now.  Sometimes there are some little issues, but
> nothing too crazy.
>
> I tried to build 'git' from source today, however, and it doesn't behave
> like anything I've ever seen...
>
> I do the ./configure and it completes without errors:
>
>
> checking for mkstemps... yes
> checking for library containing mkstemps... none required
> checking Checking for POSIX Threads with '-pthread'... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.mak.autogen
>
>
> and then run 'make' ...
>
> "Makefile", line 206: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 244: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 247: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 250: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 273: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 286: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 395: Need an operator
>
> (snip about 8 or 10 PAGES of the above)
>
> "Makefile", line 1293: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 1294: warning: duplicate script for target "ifdef" ignored
> "Makefile", line 1295: warning: duplicate script for target "ifdef" ignored
> "Makefile", line 1296: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 1298: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 1301: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 1303: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 1305: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 1307: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 1309: Need an operator
> Error expanding embedded variable.
>
>
> So ... what in the world is going on here ?
>
>
Maybe gmake?


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Adam Vande More