At 11:23 AM 11/4/2004, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>>
>> If I had to guess, this borks anything but gmake. Test for that.
>
>I had asked on #asf about this and somebody (I forget who) said that the
>make manpage on minortaur (some bsd variant) supports ?= as well. from
>looking at that it seems to be the manpage for pmake, which I guess is some
>other make variant. so limiting it to gmake at least would seem to wipe out
>bsd folks.
Ok, looks good for pmake, yes... however...
>a little digging on my own at the time made it seem like solaris make is
>really gmake
Well, the way you have it installed perhaps. But attempting this
against /usr/ccs/bin/make it most definately blows up.
>, so between linux, solaris, and bsd a decent case was being
>made that most unix make variants to support the syntax. of course,
>that list of 3 was hardly exhaustive :)
Hardly. The man page for hpux 11 make makes no mention of ?=
nor does AIX 5.1. you are 2 for 5.
Explicitly fails on native make(s) on AIX 5.1, HPUX 11, Solaris 2.6.
Please find another solution.
Bill
p.s. simple test I used...
TERM ?= uberterm
all:
echo $(TERM)
