Re: Problem with CURDIR variable

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:36 +0100, Sombat Ketrat wrote:

> the error msg. is
> ---
> GNUmakefile:3: *** Sorry, your version of GNU make (3.81) is too old.
> You need one that defines the CURDIR variable.  Stop.
> ---

> ifneq (default,$(origin CURDIR))
> $(error Sorry, your version of GNU make ($(MAKE_VERSION)) is too old.
> You need one that defines the CURDIR variable)

> Is it the problem with version of the make (make v.3.8.1-23)?
> Do you have any idea how to overcome the problem?

In GNU make 3.81, the origin of the CURDIR variable was changed from
"default" to "file" (this was so that an environment variable CURDIR
wouldn't override the value make set).

This test is kind of strange.  Unless there's some specific reason the
makefile REQUIRES the CURDIR variable to be set by make, it should be
rewritten:

ifndef CURDIR
$(error Please define the CURDIR variable (or use a newer version of GNU make))
endif

Please contact the developers of the molpro software and notify them of
this issue.  If you don't want to change the makefile you'll have to
find an older version of GNU make (3.80 would be OK) and use that
instead.

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