>Number:         22402
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       new pkg tools should depend on new make
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 08 07:41:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alan Barrett
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6W
>Organization:
Not much
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 1.6W 
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
pkgsrc relies on make's ":u" modifier, which is not present in old
versions of make.

We already have the PKGTOOLS_REQD variable in bsd.pkg.mk, which is
supposed to check that the pkg_install, pkg_add and freinds are
sufficiently recent.  I think that something similar should also be used
to check that make is sufficiently recent.

>How-To-Repeat:
For example, on a NetBSD-1.5.2 box, I updated to current pkgsrc, and the
PKGTOOLS_REQD test correctly forced me to update pkg_install.  After
updating pkg_install and friends, I attempted to build a package from
pkgsrc, and got errors saying "make: Unknown modifier 'u'".  Despite the
error messages, the build continued.

>Fix:
I don't know the correct way to fix this problem.

Perhaps we could detect that the system make doesn't support the
features that pkgsrc needs, and automatically add a dependency on a
sufficiently recent bmake (from pkgsrc/devel/bmake).

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