Bug 179422

Summary:	"make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop" error message should be more intuitive when Makefiles are missing
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Enji Cooper <ngie>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2013-06-08 03:20:00 UTC

I forget the exact circumstances for how to reproduce this error, but basically if you either are missing a Makefile in a subdirectory and gets cd'ed to in Makefile.inc1, or via bsd.subdir.mk, you'll run into this problem, and it's not very intuitive:

make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop

Having a more intuitive error message, or checking for Makefile would be nice. Please note that this issue might be resolved via my proposed changes for conf/179111 .

How-To-Repeat: - cd usr.bin
- echo 'SUBDIR+= doesnotexist' >> Makefile
- make obj

Comment 1 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2015-10-24 23:48:19 UTC

bdrewery made this behavior more intuitive on head recently.