Subject: Re: Makefile.sparc unhelpful for Sun4 builds
To: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/14/1999 07:39:04
Julian Coleman wrote:

> Just trying to compile a new kernel for a 4/300.  Makefile.sparc has a file
> list SFILES that contains (for GENERIC) :
> 
>   SFILES= $S/arch/sparc/sparc/bsd_fdintr.s \
>           $S/arch/sparc/sparc/amd7930intr.s
> 
> If you try to configure a machine with neither floppy nor audio, you will end
> up with an empty SFILES definition, and make depend will be unhappy.
> 
> Is the appended patch a reasonable solution?

For the pmax port, I used:

	.if (${SFILES} != "")

instead of just checking if SFILES is defined.  I don't think we'll
ever see the case of

	SFILES=
	  ...
	SFILES+= something.S

So your patch is probably more correct...

Simon.