[Buildroot] procps fails to compile on Fedora 14 due to newer version of GNU make

[Buildroot] procps fails to compile on Fedora 14 due to newer version of GNU make

[bruce bushby]

Hi

I recently switched to Fedora 14 as my build platform and picked up a
problem compiling procps. This is apparently caused by newer versions of
make.

Previously I was building on ubuntu "natty" which has "make-3.81-8" ...
however Fedora 14 is using "make-3.82-2". There is a very nice explanation
here:
http://old.nabble.com/make-3.81.91---procps-3.2.8-td29281048.html

Where Paul Smith explains:
In previous versions of GNU make, wildcards were returned in sorted
order; however that was never guaranteed and the new version of make
(for efficiency) returns matches in "directory order", which is
essentially random.

Following the recommendations in that thread I made very simple patch:

[root at plxarm01 tmp]# cat procps-sort-order.patch
--- procps-3.2.7.orig/Makefile  2006-06-24 10:02:25.000000000 +0100
+++ procps-3.2.7/Makefile       2011-03-18 10:55:46.055307083 +0000
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 # want this rule first, use := on ALL, and ALL not filled in yet
 all: do_all

--include */module.mk
+-include proc/module.mk ps/module.mk

 do_all:    $(ALL)


[root at plxarm01 tmp]#


I'm guessing forth coming versions of debian/ubuntu will also include
"make-3.82+" and probably experience the same issue.


Bruce
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[Buildroot] procps fails to compile on Fedora 14 due to newer version of GNU make

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Bruce,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:16:39 +0000
bruce bushby <bruce.bushby@gmail.com> wrote:

> [root at plxarm01 tmp]# cat procps-sort-order.patch
> --- procps-3.2.7.orig/Makefile  2006-06-24 10:02:25.000000000 +0100
> +++ procps-3.2.7/Makefile       2011-03-18 10:55:46.055307083 +0000
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
>  # want this rule first, use := on ALL, and ALL not filled in yet
>  all: do_all
> 
> --include */module.mk
> +-include proc/module.mk ps/module.mk
> 
>  do_all:    $(ALL)

Could you send a patch that adds this modification as a patch against
the procps package in Buildroot ? This way we could integrate it.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] procps fails to compile on Fedora 14 due to newer version of GNU make

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "bruce" == bruce bushby <bruce.bushby@gmail.com> writes:

 bruce> Hi

 bruce> I recently switched to Fedora 14 as my build platform and picked
 bruce> up a problem compiling procps. This is apparently caused by
 bruce> newer versions of make.

 bruce> Previously I was building on ubuntu "natty" which has
 bruce> "make-3.81-8" ... however Fedora 14 is using
 bruce> "make-3.82-2". There is a very nice explanation here:
 bruce> http://old.nabble.com/make-3.81.91---procps-3.2.8-td29281048.html

 bruce> Where Paul Smith explains:
 bruce> In previous versions of GNU make, wildcards were returned in sorted?
 bruce> order; however that was never guaranteed and the new version of make?
 bruce> (for efficiency) returns matches in "directory order", which is?
 bruce> essentially random.

Fixed in git (together with the bump to 3.2.8) - Thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard