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From: rxscot2@lookout.mtt.it.uswc.uswest.com (Rich Scott)
Subject: Re: emacs and FreeBSD 1.1 CD-ROM distribution
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 14:56:25 GMT
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In article <knight.52.00151340@ka1dt.mv.com>, Dave Knight
<knight@ka1dt.mv.com> wrote:
|Anyone successfully built the emacs 19.22 from the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 1.1 
|distribution disk (on FreeBSD 1.1R system)? If so, is there any undocumented 
|magic?
|
|Copied it from /mnt/ports/editor/emacs to /usr/ports/editor/emacs. Did a
|make. The build proceeded for quite awhile and built a bunch of images.
|It then stops with error #2, "make: don't know how to make make" shortly
|before it tries to build emacs proper.

I just built emacs-19.25 on my 1.1 system last night, with nearly the same
results - it dies with that exact error when descending into the "OldXMenu"
subdirectory, and then later on, when I try to 'make install' (after cd'ing
to the 'src' directory, and invoking make from there. Again, the easy way
out is to get GNUmake, and compile emacs using that. (It's not clear to
make if the Emacs Makefiles are assuming an incorrect variable expansion or
something, or if this is a bug in the FreeBSD1.1 "make").  I will investigate
this some more today.

  =rich


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Rich Scott				      USWest Information Technologies
<rxscot2@lookout.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>				       Denver