$< make #745

kaiquekandykoga · 2022-11-01T21:21:39Z

Apparently $< is not working propertly on FreeBSD.

[kandy@ ~/a/n]$ make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/
cp  /usr/local/
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ... target_directory
*** Error code 64

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/kandy/a/n

Changing the Makefile from $< to bin/n works.

[kandy@ ~/a/n]$ freebsd-version
13.1-RELEASE

Changing the Makefile from $< to bin/n works.

shadowspawn

One small simplification.

Thanks for fix.

shadowspawn · 2022-11-02T04:58:50Z

Makefile

 install: bin/n
-	mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/$(dir $<)
-	cp $< $(PREFIX)/$<
+	mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/$(dir bin/n)


Simplify the (now) hard-coded directory name:

Suggested change

mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/$(dir bin/n)

mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/bin

It is done. Thank you.

shadowspawn · 2022-11-02T05:24:23Z

For interest, $< is an automatic variable in GNU make for "the name of the first prerequisite":

The FreeBSD man page for make says:

The $@ and $< variables are more or less universally portable, as is the $(MAKE) variable.

but then does not mention $< anywhere else on the page! Perhaps less universally portable...

shadowspawn · 2022-11-03T07:08:43Z

Thanks @kaiquekandykoga

shadowspawn · 2022-11-04T06:02:37Z

Released in v9.0.1

Apparently $< is not working propertly on FreeBSD.

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Changing the Makefile from $< to bin/n works.

shadowspawn reviewed Nov 2, 2022

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Simplify mkdir

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shadowspawn changed the base branch from master to develop November 3, 2022 07:06

shadowspawn added the pending release Merged into a branch for a future release, but not released yet label Nov 3, 2022

shadowspawn merged commit ca8d624 into tj:develop Nov 3, 2022

shadowspawn removed the pending release Merged into a branch for a future release, but not released yet label Nov 4, 2022

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