dhcpcd-discuss

On 9/10/19 10:30 AM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:59 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 05/09/2019 14:05, balducci@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > hello
> > >
> > > this is just a headsup that you might be interested in
> > >
> > > Running on linux.
> > >
> > > dhcpcd doesn't build vs recently released (GNU) make-4.2.90 run candidate.
> > >
> > > The reason seems to be using suffix rules with prerequisites in both
> > > src/Makefile and src/dev/Makefile.
> > >
> > >   From make-4.2.90's NEWS:
> > >       ----8<----
> > >       * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
> > >         Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites were being
> > >         treated BOTH as simple targets AND as pattern rules.  Behavior now matches
> > >         the documentation, and pattern rules are no longer created in this case.
> > >       ---->8----
> > >
> > > which basically says that suffix rules with prerequisites aren't
> > > tolerated any longer
> > >
> > > For me, running vs make-4.2.1 or the following workaround (which I
> > > don't think is portable, though):
> >
> > That's really poor on their part.
> > Suffix rules have worked with pre-requisites for years on other
> > implementions such as bmake.
>
> Time to switch to something more fancy like CMake or Meson?

I think cmake only replaces autoconf, it still calls make.

meson requires python3, I'm not sure how popular a switch to meson/ninja 
would be to non-linux users.

But of course, it's not my  decision to make.


Bye
Tim