For a long time, I've been updating org from git every week or two via:
update-org () {
(cd $HOME/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode && git pull && make)
}and I have emacs pointed at that directory. This is on NetBSD where "make" is BSD make. Today, I updated again and got: make: "/home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode/Makefile" line 6: Need an operator make: "/home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode/Makefile" line 87: Need an operator make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue make: stopped in /home/gdt/SOFTWARE/EMACS/org-mode and it seems recent changes have required beyond-POSIX-make features. This seems unfortunate; I don't understand why building org has to be so complicated. If it is complicated, it seems best to use autoconf/automake, which already have worked out most of the portability issues. At the very least a dependency on GNU make should be documented, if that is indeed an intentional decision by the community. (I haven't seen any discussion, but I confess to not quite keeping up with with emacs-orgmode traffic.) Greg
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