Bootstrap failure: objdir=srcdir, FreeBSD make

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:16:22AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:09:02PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > 
> > I have in the past been able to bootstrap GCC with Debian's pmake,
> > which unfortunately appears to have cribbed patches from all three of
> > {Free,Net,Open}BSD CVS trees, and has further been bludgeoned into
> > functioning on a Linux-based OS.  So I can't say for sure if it works
> > on any actual *BSD.  Also I have not tried objdir=srcdir in years.
> 
> Will Andrews has been working on taking OpenBSD and NetBSD make(1)
> changes and folding into FreeBSD.  Maybe he knows of some more in the
> works that would help the issue (or can look at the ones used in building
> Debian's pmake).

The Debian package of pmake is just one tarball with everything
included; the usual .diff.gz is missing.  Therefore I do not know what
is upstream and what is a local patch (well, I imagine the debian-
specific control files are local :) This is not supposed to be done,
but may be the only feasible way to handle a package which was cribbed
from multiple CVS trees.  I've cc:ed the package maintainer, Steve
McIntyre, for comments.

zw