Re: OSX build fails

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 22-11-2017 08:37, Roland Knall wrote:
> Might be a stupid question but on my account, only Linux machines are 
> now capable of building Wireshark out of the box with autotools on 
> default, right?

I'm not sure what you mean by "on default", but it seems unlikely that 
anyone could build Wireshark without having to install at least one 
dependency.

BSDs usually supply a gmake command for GNU Make. Not sure if it is 
installed by default.

> Windows could not anyway, and with this dependency macOS X fails as 
> well. Beside the obvious esoteric options (Solaris, ...) this leaves 
> CMake as the only viable option for about 95% of all build scenarios.
>
> Is there a technical reason, e.g. something that CMake can't do, to 
> still support it? I am not speaking out in favor of removal, just 
> wondering aloud.
>
> cheers
> Roland
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu 
> <mailto:guy () alum mit edu>> wrote:
>
>     On Nov 21, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Dario Lombardo
>     <dario.lombardo.ml () gmail com <mailto:dario.lombardo.ml () gmail com>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > I don't have an OSX machine to work on. Anyone experiencing the same error?
>
>     Yes.
>
>     > Any idea on why it's happening
>
>     autotools builds now require GNU Make 4.x; macOS ships with 3.x,
>     because 4.x is GPLv3.
>
>     > and how to fix it?
>
>     Either download and install a newer version of GNU Make, or switch
>     to using CMake rather than autotools.
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