[ovs-dev] [PATCH bsd make 0/3] Fix build with BSD make

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jul 25 19:41:37 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:29:22PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 25 July 2012 13:31, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> mentioned that BSD make didn't
> > work with OVS.  That was unintentional; I just hadn't tested it
> > with BSD make in a while.
> 
> Ok, I've applied these changes and can build with NetBSD's make (this
> should be the same as pmake that you tested; in our ports tree it's
> called bmake).  I still have one minor issue with FreeBSD's native
> make - it descends into datapath/ and then reports
> 
> Error expanding embedded variable.
> 
> If as a hack I temporarily comment out SUBDIRS= in the top-level
> Makefile it works with FreeBSD's make.

OK, thanks for testing.  I pushed these patches since they do improve
the situation even if they don't fix all the problems.

I see why FreeBSD make complains about the datapath/ Makefile.  I'll
try to fix that soon also.



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