[Xcb] xcb with BSD make and on DragonFly

[Barton C Massey]

In message <440EB00E.5090705 at freedesktop.org> you wrote:
> > 2) Now xcb's Makefile generated via automake 1.9.6 and Autoconf 2.59.
> > complains with the native make:
> > 
> > Making all in src
> > "Makefile", line 746: Need an operator
> > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > The line is:
> > 
> > vpath %.xml $(XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR) $(XCBPROTO_XCBINCLUDEDIR)/extensions
> > 
> > Also NetBSD's make doesn't like it either.
> > 
> > As a workaround, I used gmake. Please consider allowing the native BSD 
> > make to work as it appears to do for rest of Xorg.
> 
> Without knowing the intricacies of BSD make and how it differs from GNU
> make, we'd have to defer that task to someone experienced with BSD make.
>  We'd be happy to take patches which add portability to other makes.  In
> the meantime, feel free to add a note to the xcb wiki pointing out that
> you currently need GNU make.

I know standard make pretty well.  I'll try to find time to
work on the makefiles next week unless someone beats me to
it.

    Bart