Re: [LTP] LTP 20091031 Makefiles totally broken?!?

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 01:47:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that not supporting older distributions is very
> > necessarily a bad thing.
> 
> I agree. There are some feature gaps between 3.80 and 3.81 I'll need
> to address, which means I need to first off download SLES 10 and

Sorry, it's suse 10.0, not sles10. 

But it's enough to just install make 3.80 somewhere and
call it explicitely on a newer distro (I just tested that).
Shows the same problem.

> install it on another VM, and toy around with it (if you can provide
> me with those details, I'll give it a shot).

what details do you need?

> >> Then it comes back to tools -- I'm basically going to have to write
> >> checks in autoconf to make sure that readlink does as planned (isn't
> >> broken), and it's going to be more painful for you performance wise to
> >> have this hack in place, as opposed to just having an upgraded version
> >> of make, which also has resolved several bugs between 3.80 and 3.81.
> >
> > I don't understand: the key is not to test for commands used
> > by makefiles, but simply only use features which are generally available.
> >
> > I'm also highly surprised that this doesn't work with autoconf -- I thought
> > the whole point of autoconf was to generate portable makefiles, but
> > in this case it seems to especially generate a non portable Makefile.
> >
> > I suspect it's actually not a autoconf problem by itself, but
> > something that's in the LTP templates.
> 
> Agreed. The problem that everyone with <3.80 is running into is that I

<=3.80

> was stupid and was under the assumption that many distros wouldn't
> still use make 3.81 because it's been out for the past 4 years. My
> apologies -- I stand corrected.

Thanks for addressing the problem.
I apologize also for being somewhat too grumpy on the issue.
If you have any patches to test feel free to send them.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

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