[Scummvm-devel] Issue compilling the tools with make 3.80
Max Horn
max at quendi.de
Sat Jan 9 21:05:34 CET 2010
Am 09.01.2010 um 20:04 schrieb Thierry Crozat:
> Hi all,
>
> For your information, I tried to compile the ScummVM tools (from
> trunk) on MacOS X 10.4 today and ran into the infamous "virtual
> memory exhausted" bug in make 3.80 (see for example http://
> www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01659.html or https://
> savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=1517). The
> bug is fixed in make 3.81 and indeed I can confirm that the tools
> compile fine on MacOS X 10.5 and 10.6 (which both use make 3.81).
> I also compiled make 3.81 on MacOS X 10.4 today and then was able to
> compile the ScummVM tools with this version of make.
>
> I suppose this might affect other platforms who use make 3.80 without
> the corrective patch.
>
> Last time I tried to compile the tools on that computer was about
> three weeks ago and it compiled fine.
>
> I am not sure if I should fill or not a bug report for this issue
> considering it is a make bug and not a ScummVM tools bug. Let me know
> if you want me to fill a bug report.
make 3.80 is known to be super-buggy. Anybody who is using it should
really get an upgrade (which is free, after all).
If there is a trivial way to make it happy, I won't mind, but
otherwise, I wouldn't consider this a bug on our side.
Cheers,
Max
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