From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QqUiv-0007K2-He for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:38:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A4FC21C186; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACA321C179 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so2773907fxd.40 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:37:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jfGd8aUeDURAB/m8Fmi8WfgnKUEW2tSf8J4i5qMKStQ=; b=lWOH8ka65hWpwY0aDpp75sS5yAcQ6kdx/gTJ3vKKhPJvH26u8H3NRFGSJUxXdjVDyd curuqjik084lxh/sv0Uq2WmBaTujSepFoxuS3cXul5Wa44bqKeO7BpLzQ78ijbFnSodA y+Bmtv6X11giFCez/9wbviHz9mHGnY5KxwFW0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.17.141 with SMTP id s13mr8123754faa.7.1312828660972; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.74.7 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:37:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 14:37:40 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to "make" breaks lots of things... From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e72911a121f0649de881cfb4f2d65e8b On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Grant Edwards w= rote: > I don't think this is Gentoo-specific, but I've noticed that a recent > update to "make" is causing makefile breakage. =C2=A0For example, trying = to > build a Linux 2.6.28 kernel: > > =C2=A0beta linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 # make oldconfig > =C2=A0Makefile:442: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. =C2=A0Stop. > > Apparently the authors of "make" are cracking down on things that have > been allowed for many years. As a result, some Makefiles don't work > anymore. > > At least for me, that means that "make" now needs to be slotted so > that I can keep an older version around that's compatible with older > Makefiles. =C2=A0Is there any chance of that? > > [I don't suppose anybody knows off-hand which version of "make" > introduced all the breakage?] I haven't encountered this yet. Which version of make are you running? --=20 :wq