[Monotone-devel] Re: Status of nvm.stripped

[Lapo Luchini]

Jack Lloyd wrote:
> FreeBSD 7.0 packages PCRE 7.4, which is apparently too old. I
> installed PCRE 7.8 from source. (FreeBSD 7.1 has PCRE 7.7.something so
> this should not be a problem with future releases)
>   

Please notice the FreeBSD Ports system is not branched together with the
OS releases, it's just meant to be compatible with the latest releases.
So, even if you install from a 7.0-RELEACE CD and you've got PCRE 7.4,
when you install monotone from the ports you ideally upgrade also all
the dependencies (right now PCRE in the Ports is 7.8).
(a "/usr/ports/devel/monotone ; make install" won't upgrade dependencies
first, but tools like portmaster or portupgrade are just made for that)

> FreeBSD's make is unhappy with the Makefile:
>
> $ make
> Error expanding embedded variable
>
> (Yes that is really all it tells me, no line number or anything). GNU
> make works fine. I haven't checked if this is specific to nvm.stripped
> or not.
>   

Always been so AFAIR, I think it's expectd… BSD make and GNU make are
simply different and I guess Makefiles made by GNU Automake are targeted
to GNU make (but I didn't study the issue much further than this).

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