Bug 65640 – emerge of cdrtools gives an recomendation to to use smake instead of make

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Örjan Södergren 2004-09-27 23:39:05 UTC]

its very odd that an emerge of cdrtools gives a recomedation to use and download smake instead of make from an ftp-site. I find it not to be the gentoo-way of doing things.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge cdrtools
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/cvmod.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/dat.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fcons.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fdown.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fdup.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/ffileread.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/ffilewrite.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fgetline.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fgetstr.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/file_raise.d: No such file or directory
../RULES/r-gmake.dep:76: OBJ/<arch-dir>/fileclose.d: No such file or directory
....

are caused by a GNU make bug and not by the Schily makefile system.

The related bug has been reported to the GNU make maintainers in 1988 but
as the bug has not yet been fixed, it seems that GNU make is unmaintained :-(
A working highly portable make program is at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake


Expected Results:  
emerge smake before emerging cdrtools

[Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) 2004-10-25 20:54:08 UTC]

I know these warnings and I ignore them every time.  That does not harm the build of cdrtools.  The only reason I guess is that the author of cdrtools wants to propagate his own version of make.  Just ignore that.

When I would find a way of hiding such messages during emerge, I would do it.