make package: Provide shim for "gmake"

mcandre · 2018-03-30 23:54:12

Some project builds invoke GNU make as "gmake", which breaks in environments where GNU make is provided only as "make".

Please add a soft-link shim or similar so that build scripts referencing "gmake" can run better in Arch.

Trilby · 2018-03-31 00:02:27

What build scripts would you be referring to? Our build scripts are PKGBUILDs, and they are specific to arch. Why would a arch-specific PKGBUILD reference a non-arch tool?

eschwartz · 2018-04-02 17:40:26

I guess for the same reason cc is gcc, awk is gawk, etc? Some projects use recursive Make, and maybe don't use $(MAKE) like they should? Or else some magic proxying like cmake --build is in play (though this wouldn't be using gmake), like some ill-advised wrapper script on top of make. I could think of more than a few crazy reasons to provide it.

What I don't get is why Arch should provide such a compat symlink, when the GNU Make project does not, and Linux distros customarily do not -- because it is only useful for portability with BSD where the make command comes from pmake. This would be an Arch-specific fix, which makes it pretty useless. If you care about this compat symlink, file a bug with the GNU Make project: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/

Last edited by eschwartz (2018-04-02 17:42:16)

Trilby · 2018-04-02 19:13:21

I find good reasons persuasive ...

Eschwartz wrote:

I could think of more than a few crazy reasons to provide it.

crazy ones, not so much.

dreieck · 2023-07-26 18:50:25

RPL/2 needs `gmake` according to the description.

Last edited by dreieck (2023-07-26 18:50:34)

Trilby · 2023-07-26 20:24:38

A 5 year necro bump for a completely false claim? No, RPL/2 does not need a binary named gmake which is immediately obvious from even a glance at their makefile which properly uses the $(MAKE) variable.

WorMzy · 2023-07-26 21:19:43

Dreieck, please don't necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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#1 2018-03-30 23:54:12

make package: Provide shim for "gmake"

#2 2018-03-31 00:02:27

Re: make package: Provide shim for "gmake"

#3 2018-04-02 17:40:26

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#4 2018-04-02 19:13:21

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