On 12/03/2022 06.27, Lincoln Auster wrote:

Hi,

When attempting to build and run doctests for cpython on FreeBSD, I got a vague error from the default BSD make. gmake, of course, ran fine. Is GNU make the only supported make implementation? If so, did I miss that in the devguide, or should that be in there somewhere?

Hi, the top-level Makefile works with gmake (GNU) and bmake (BSD). Buildbot CI tests that Python builds with standard compiler and make on FreeBSD. The Makefile in Doc/ subdirectory is different. It is based on Sphinx's Makefile template. It looks like Sphinx uses GNU make features that are not supported by BSD make. Could you please open a bug at https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx ? Christian