gEDA-user: gwave installation failure on OpenBSD

[Dan McMahill]

Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:21:44PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>>

>>That issue aside, are you using GNU make or OpenBSD's make?  I've found 
> 
> 
> Hard to tell. The make executable is OpenBSD make. The gmake executable
> is GNU make. However I made this alias for enhanced "compatibility":
> alias make='gmake'
> 
> So it's basically nondeterministic - if it calls make directly then it will
> be OpenBSD make, if it goes through the alias mechanism in the shell, then
> it will be GNU make. If the make calls itself recursively and has bad luck
> it can actually end up calling a different implementation of itself :)

So you almost certainly have a mix of gmake at the top level and OpenBSD 
make at lower levels.  Didn't you already get burned by this once in the 
past?  Try just running 'gmake'.

-Dan