[Bf-committers] make vs gmake

Kent Mein bf-committers@blender.org
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 06:45:40 -0600


In reply to John K. Walton (walton@mrnutty.com):

> in the python freeze part that looks like this:
> 
> Now run "make" in ../frozen to build the target: VRMLmain
> cd ../frozen && make && cd ../freeze
> 
> 'make' is called. this calls IRIX make which doesn't work
> with any of this. the GNU make is called 'gmake' and lives
> in a different directory than 'make'. i used ln -s gmake to make
> in the GNU bin directory, but this is a hack. the script should
> call either 'gamke' (does gnu system have a sym link?). or do
> OS detection.
> 
> thanks
> john
> 

The problem is its not standard on all systems.
Doing a google search provided this info though, before running configure try:
setenv MAKE=gmake

Kent
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