[cfarm-users] Some issues with cfarm215

[Denis Ovsienko]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:54:00 +0000
Peter Gutmann via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> However what happens if a random user unpacks a tarball on system Z
> and types 'make'?

stress-ng uses an original make-only build system, I did not try it on
Solaris, but on Haiku it worked good enough to fix the few broken bits.
It detects OS features like Autoconf, but faster, before the main
build, and what it cannot detect it expects the user to specify in
environment variables.

XNedit, which inherited its make-only build system from Nedit,
nominally supports Solaris as one of the OSes, but the user has to tell
which OS it is, e.g. "make freebsd".

Maybe these implementations could serve as a model for your project.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko