Re: MacOS build issue

> On 15 Nov 2019, at 3:54 am, Michael Stahl <mst@libreoffice.org> wrote:
>
> On 14.11.19 17:51, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > On 14.11.19 17:06, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I’m running macOS Catalina. After getting some help tweaking the lode setup script to handled 
> > > Catalina, I’ve now gotten to the point where I am running make, but I get an error.
> > >
> > > I’ve run the verbose make option in the hope that someone might be able to assist me with the 
> > > following error I’m getting:
> > >
> > > christophersherlock@imac core % make clean
> > i'm guessing that this ^ is a recent make that was built by lode
> > > rm -fr /Users/christophersherlock/repos/lode/dev/core/test-install
> > > rm -fr /Users/christophersherlock/repos/lode/dev/core/instdir
> > > rm -fr /Users/christophersherlock/repos/lode/dev/core/workdir
> > > christophersherlock@imac core % make GMAKE_OPTIONS='VERBOSE=1'
> > > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -j 1  VERBOSE=1
> > i'm guessing that this ^ is some 10 year old thing that doesn't support $(file)
> > then your config_host.mk contains export HAVE_GNUMAKE_FILE_FUNC=TRUE but it's a lie and nothing 
> > works...
>
> quite frankly i wonder if we should just remove support for building with make < 4.0 on master; 
> better to have a clear error message than funny inconsistent build configurations leading to 
> mysterious errors…

I would agree - you are, for the record, completely correct. I installed a later version of make 
from brew, and the issue went away. 

Thanks Michael, I had no idea the Xcode make was so out of date (or that it would even cause these 
issues…)!

Chris