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bug#68545: warnings from GNU Make 3.81
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#68545: warnings from GNU Make 3.81 |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:20:19 +0200 |
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:50:13 +0100
>
> Building with GNU Make 3.81, which seems to be supported, gives the warnings
>
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C java
> bootstrap-clean
> Makefile:157: warning: overriding commands for target `&'
> Makefile:151: warning: ignoring old commands for target `&'
> Makefile:168: warning: overriding commands for target `&'
> Makefile:157: warning: ignoring old commands for target `&'
> Makefile:296: warning: overriding commands for target `&'
> Makefile:168: warning: ignoring old commands for target `&'
>
> That version probably doesn't like '&'. Given that I'm not building anything
> in the java/ directory anyway, perhaps that sub-make can be avoided
> altogether for platforms other than Android?
The &: feature was introduced in GNU Make 4.3, and we don't want to
force people to use such new versions. So please find a different
solution for what you need to do there, one that doesn't require Make
newer than 3.81.