[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: release candidate dnsmasq-2.60rc1

[Simon Kelley]

On 29/02/12 03:18, Preston Crow wrote:
> I hit a Makefile issue (that wasn't there in dnsmasq-2.60test10):
>
> # pmake way to learn path of Makefile
> TOP != echo `pwd`/
> # GNU make way to learn path of Makefile
> TOP ?= $(shell pwd)
>
> This leads to:
>
> Makefile:38: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> Apparently it doesn't like the first TOP line.
>
> I might be building it wrong. I'm using Gentoo Linux, and I copied and
> tweaked the ebuild that I used for test10, which was copied and tweaked
> from the ebuild for the previous release.
>

Sigh. Writing portable makefiles is a thankless task. I tested this on 
Gnu-make and BSD  make. What flavour/version on make are you using.

Related question: BSD people. Would you care if I gave up the fight and 
required GNU-make to build dnsmasq?

Cheers,

Simon.