On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:38:13 GMT, bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net wrote:

Please let me know how we can get this patch merged.

OpenLDAP needs more active developers... Anyway:

It should remove GNU Make dependencies, not introduce them: Only use '$<' in inference rules, not explicit target rules (like ITS#7160). Drop '%.x: %.y' rules. I've scribbled a draft for that at repo http://folk.uio.no/hbf/OpenLDAP/openldap.git, branch its6883. (Not tested, and I need to install a non-Gnu Make to test with too.)

I'll work at it later, but don't quite know when. Unless you beat me to it.

Also I suppose '+=' should go away. Which I would mean move what is added to a new variable so the user can easily say things like make CPPFLAGS='-Dwhatever $(DEFS)'. Or maybe use

LT_CPPFLAGS= ..whatever $(CPPFLAGS) ...

like e.g. slapd/overlays/Makefile ends up doing. THat one has an awful number of Make variables and is fairly unreadable to me, probably to satisfy autoconf & co. But a few more vars seems useful.