Re: [smartmontools-support] smartmontools 5.39.1 won't make on NetBSD/i386 5.0.1

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Ray Phillips wrote:
>    
>> Meantime I tried a fresh install of NetBSD 5.0.1 and could not
>> reproduce the problem.
>>      
> I coudn't either when I tried with a fresh install of 5.0.1.  I must
> have messed up the header files on the machine I initially tried to
> install smartmontools on.  Sorry for wasting your time.
>
>    

No problem.


> Do you know which version of smartmontools will contain the fix to
> allow it to be built with BSD make?
>
>    

It is fixed on SVN trunk (r3069) and will be included in 5.40. There is 
no release schedule yet.

The rule with '%' wildcard which is not supported by BSD make was in 
Makefile.am since April 2003 (SVN r955). Interestingly nobody has added 
this useful feature to BSD make since then :-)

Cheers,
Christian