On Mon, 2025-10-13 at 18:50 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote: > As a variation of [1], I am trying to implement auto-dependency generation > without tracking a list of sources (SRCS). I've managed to get everything > working on make 4.4, and with a few hacks everything except empty recipe > forcing for pattern rules on make 3.8.2.
You definitely should compile GNU make 4.4 (or later) from its source code, which you can fetch from many places. That takes less than an hour (at least if you don't enable GNU guile). Of course you need a C compiler (but I hope you can download a binary obtained from gcc.gnu.org ...) and I guess you have one (probably if you don't build software you might not need GNU make). Regards PS. Once you have a working GNU make and other utilities and are able to recompile and rebuild and reinstall GNU make I suggest compiling GNU guile and having another make with GNU guile enabled inside it -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[email protected]> 8 rue de la Faïencerie http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ 92340 Bourg-la-Reine https://github.com/bstarynk France https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-5250
