> On 15 Nov 2019, at 3:54 am, Michael Stahl <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Thanks Michael, I had no idea the Xcode make was so out of date (or that it would even cause these issues…)!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 _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice