Re: gmake-4.2.1 ignores assignment of ARCH on FreeBSD

[Yuri]

On 12/26/17 07:26, Paul Smith wrote:
> A faster way for you to get answers would be to put the relevant
> makefile lines into your email so we could all see them without
> installing an entirely different operating system, or pulling down a
> software package, unpacking it, and snuffling through its build system.


Here are all lines where the variable ARCH appears in the makefile. ARCH 
doesn't get substituted. Renaming ARCH -> ARCHX changes the behavior to 
what is expected.


# beginning of the Makefile: 2 values have shell substitutions, but ARCH 
doesn't get substituted and OSTYPE does

.PHONY:         all depend clean lint doc doxygen check valgrind libdbl 
coverage

ARCH           :=      $(shell uname -m | \
                        sed \
                        -e s/sun../sparc/ \
                        -e s/i.86/x86/ \
                        -e s/i86pc/x86/ \
                        -e s/amd64/x86_64/ \
                        -e s/IP../mips/ \
                        -e s/9000..../hppa/ \
                        -e s/Power\ Macintosh/ppc/ \
                        -e s/00........../pwr4/)
OSTYPE          :=      $(shell uname -s | \
                        tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \
                        tr '/' '_' | \
                        sed \
                        -e s/freebsd/linux/ \
                        -e s/cygwin.*/cygwin/ \
                        -e s/irix../irix/ \
                        -e s/windows.*/windows/ \
                        -e s/mingw.*/mingw/)
# just some use of ARCH

BASE            =       $(OSTYPE).$(ARCH).$(COMP).$(OPT)
OBJDIR          = obj/O.$(OSTYPE).$(ARCH).$(COMP).$(LINK).$(OPT)
NAME            =       zimpl
BINNAME         = 
$(NAME)-$(VERSION).$(OSTYPE).$(ARCH).$(COMP).$(LINK).$(OPT)

# include looking for a non-existent file because substitution hasn't 
been performed, and breaking the build

include make/make.$(OSTYPE).$(ARCH).$(COMP).$(OPT)

# here go makefile targets, and it ends