Re: [LTP] just another make-3.80 bug

[Mike F. <va...@ge...>]

On Thursday, August 05, 2010 09:54:50 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:53 AM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> >> BTW... calling 1make' bareword never worked with 3.80; all of the the
> >> directions in INSTALL say use make all [...]; make install. The reason
> >> being is that make 3.80 didn't have a functional .DEFAULT_GOAL
> >> equivalent until sometime around midway between make 3.80 and make
> >> 3.81; so assuming that `make' will function the same as `make all'
> >> isn't a good assumption to make :).
> > 
> > So ltp buildsystem is kind of a mine field ;). Anyway as make picks up
> > first target and makes it default adding "default: all" to the beginning
> > of env_pre.mk seems to fix that problem for me.
> 
> Seems like a decent workaround for cases when env_pre.mk is used, but this
> isn't possible with 3rd party Makefiles, so it might be kind of a moot
> point.
> 
> Just to be safe I'd stick with the directions unless you want to submit
> patches to fix every issue in the source tree :)...

tweaking the top level makefile so the standard `./configure && make` works 
without having to read directions would be nice
-mike