I guess this has only ever been tried with gnu make; using "gmake" instead of "make" on the SF compile farm works for me.

My Makefile looks like this (all plugins internal)
"
... 
PLUGINS_O:=$(PLUGINS_O)   Mpeg3Plugin.o $(LIBMPEG_BUILD_DIR)/libmpeg3.a
...
PLUGINS_O:=$(PLUGINS_O)   ADPCMCodecPlugin/ADPCMCodecPlugin.o ... {this is probably your line 453, note the Mpeg3Plugin is not in the list }
...
VM_O=           $(CORE_O) $(PLUGINS_O) $(INTERP).o
...
"

So deleting the $(PLUGINS_O) would probably lose me the internally built Mpeg3Plugin.

Instead, I *think* it might be a little bit more portable to change
   PLUGINS_O:=$(PLUGINS_O) ...
into
   PLUGINS_O +=  ...

in

   platforms/unix/misc/util/mkMake
   platforms/unix/plugins/Mpeg3Plugin/mkMakeRules

I'll try this tomorrow. I have some other tweaks pending from trying to build under Solaris, I hope to wrap this up over the weekend and post everything I have.

Joern

Nevin Pratt wrote:
> 
> I'm playing around with VMMaker.
> 
> Any attempt to build the resultant source code on a FreeBSD system
> results in the error:
> 
>    Variable PLUGINS_O is recursive
> 
> Line 453 of the resultant Makefile has the following:
> 
>    PLUGINS_O:=$(PLUGINS_O) {and then all of the plugins are listed}
> 
> I remove the $(PLUGINS_O) from the line, and all seems to work.
> 
> Nevin