Fossil SCM

When trying to build Fossil on Haiku (ticket 084eedc010), I run into a problem with the Makefile. The following syntaxes do not seem to be supported by GNU Make 3.82:

HOST_OS :sh = uname -s

and

HOST_OS = $(uname -s:sh)

The following does work (but breaks things for other make variants, I assume):

HOST_OS = $(shell uname -s)

ben added on 2011-06-13 15:28:00 UTC: I believe you've tried to edit the Makefile to add the changes in ticket [084eedc010].

Currently the only platforms which need these additions use BSD make, where this works. So currently it hasn't mattered that this doesn't work on platforms which use GNU make. Changes to work with GNU make break non-Linux platforms -- the current syntax works on as many as possible.

Given the project wants to avoid a configure step, it might be necessary to add a Makefile.haiku.

anonymous claiming to be brecht added on 2011-06-13 21:23:11 UTC: Perhaps the following offers a solution:

HOST_OS_CMD = uname -s
BSD_HOST_OS = $($(HOST_OS_CMD):sh)
GNU_HOST_OS = $(shell $(HOST_OS_CMD) )
HOST_OS = $(BSD_HOST_OS)$(GNU_HOST_OS)

It works for GNU Make, as BSD_HOST_OS will be empty. I'm hoping GNU_HOST_OS would be empty when using BSD Make.

steveb added on 2011-07-22 22:43:01 UTC: As of [c32b23d626] fossil builds on Haiku R1/Alpha 3 with ./configure; make