Sun's make "almost" works

Martin Maechler writes:

I don't know if we still strive for  non-GNU make capability..

Yes.  However, my experience is that for non-GNU make we typically need
builddir == srcdir.

Anyway, here a report:

I was using the builddir != srcdir approach on Sun Solaris 2.6, and
normal Sun make (/usr/ccs/bin/make) worked up to producing a correct
R.X11 binary.

It failed when trying to make the first
src/library/<pkg>/src/<pkg>.so, namely in eda/src with

make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `line.o'

where GNU make then did

gcc -I../../../../include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fPIC -g -O2 -c ../../../../../SRC/src/library/eda/src/line.c -o line.o
.......

Hmm, what is different between the rules in src and the library ones?
Can you try replacing $(SHLIB) by its value in eda's src/Makefile and
then see what happens?

-k
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