Hi Greg,
Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> writes:
> 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.
It does *not* have to be.
> 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.)
I will let Achim reply to your issue here. I agree we should stick to
something as simple and portable as possible. We will document all the
changes in this area for the 7.9 release.
Best,
--
Bastien
