Re: [Tinycc-devel] First build reports back for Alien::TinyCC

[David Mertens]

Good to know about gmake and Mac. Actually, I use "make" on Mac and haven't hit any trouble. But I haven't had good test results come in yet for other Macs (only one computer reporting, with a weird reason), so we'll get a clearer picture in the coming days and weeks.

David

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Preud'homme <address@hidden> wrote:

Le vendredi 23 août 2013 14:54:57 David Mertens a écrit :

> Hello everyone -
>
> Useful build reports are coming in. Apparently the recipe is the main
> culprit at the moment, but I wanted to draw attention to a few things.
>
> BSD needs gmake for tcc's makefile
> ========
> OpenBSD --
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/bbabfece-0b9e-11e3-8a37-e2882d12fa71
> MidnightBSD ---
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6126c2ba-0b97-11e3-b8b2-96b61dda783b
> FreeBSD --
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/4c80000c-0b9b-11e3-b8b2-96b61dda783b
> Related discussion -- http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5279
>
> It looks like I need to tweak my build system and be sure to use gmake
> instead of plain old make on BSD systems. I'll modify the make system
> accordingly and we'll see how that goes.

Indeed and that's said in the README file since make is invoked by user.
However it only suggest gmake for OS X and FreeBSD, it should propose gmake
for OS X and *BSD I guess.

>
> Uncertain Mac Builds
> ========
> Report:
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/a8cee68e-0b9b-11e3-aead-6690681aeb38
>
> I'm not sure what's going on here. This is the only person reporting on Mac
> builds so far, and the error is always the same. I'm not sure if the
> problem is due to a strange setup on this person's machine, or if it's a
> more general problem.
>
> A particular surprise is that we're passing on an OS that describes itself
> as "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD". Never heard of that!. Anyway, I'll keep everyone
> posted as I refine the recipe.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is FreeBSD kernel with Debian GNU userland. It was a
Debian port for quite some time and since Debian squeeze is one of the
official release «architecture». Obviously Mac OS X shouldn't be detected as
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

>
> David

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