[opensource-dev] Directory named "$(CONFIGURATION)" (was: No rule to make target)

[Ponzu]

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As an amateur developer, if I try to generate a makefile based environment
on OS X, I would expect a warning to tell me that this is not supported.

comment:  Isn't this just one or two lines in develop.py?

ponzu

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com>wrote:

>  Just a note -- since the XCode tools are free, high quality, and
> supported, Linden Lab is unlikely to put any significant prioritization into
> making other toolsets work on the mac. If someone else wants to add such
> support without breaking what we have, then we won't gratuitously break it,
> but we're probably never going to test it.
>
> Q
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>  On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Brad Kittenbrink (Brad Linden) wrote:
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> Speaking as the author of the offending changesets (sorry!).  I'd strongly
> recommend buiding using the xcode generator instead of makefiles on Mac.
> This is not the only place we make this assumption in our cmake scripts.
>
> Anyways, for now our builds pretty much assume Mac == Xcode.  In theory,
> that'd be good to fix, but I don't really have time to look into it now.  If
> there are enough people interested in this we should get a story written for
> adding support for the makefile generator on mac, and then I can fill in the
> details there for how it should be done.
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