[illumos-Developer] interesting userland project -- non-trivial

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 22:31 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I think trying to get to the point that smake can build ON would be very
> > > useful.
> > >
> > > > 
> > > > Did someone already try to compile ON using the simple sunpro make?
> > >
> > > When I build I use /usr/ccs/bin/make.  This does include parallelization
> > > features.
> > 
> > Onless you changed "nightly" or fiddle with environment variables, "dmake" will 
> > be called instead.
>
> Probably. I use "make" in individual directories when I build sub
> components, but I wonder if bldenv changed my path.... I'll need to
> check that.

I did not check bldenv, but nichtly sets MAKE=dmake and then calls dmake.

If the same is done in bldenv, then your first call to make will use make but 
recursive make calls will probably call dmake.

> > > However, if we find that a large percentage of Sun Makefiles (such as in
> > > ON) use these constructs in ways that would be hard to correct, then I
> > > think we will need to reconsider.  The goal here is to provide a
> > > solution that is minimally disruptive.
> > 
> > Let us try to bring smake close to be able to compile, then smake will list the 
> > incorrect calls as warnings.
>
> Sounds like an excellent plan.  Can you do this work?

I can do this.

Jörg

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