$< make

[kaiquekandykoga]

Apparently $< is not working propertly on FreeBSD.

[kandy@ ~/a/n]$ make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/
cp  /usr/local/
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ... target_directory
*** Error code 64

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/kandy/a/n

Changing the Makefile from $< to bin/n works.

[kandy@ ~/a/n]$ freebsd-version
13.1-RELEASE

[shadowspawn]

One small simplification.

Thanks for fix.

[shadowspawn]

Simplify the (now) hard-coded directory name:

Suggested change

	mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/$(dir bin/n)
	mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/bin

[kaiquekandykoga]

It is done. Thank you.

[shadowspawn]

For interest, $< is an automatic variable in GNU make for "the name of the first prerequisite":

The FreeBSD man page for make says:

The $@ and $< variables are more or less universally portable, as is the $(MAKE) variable.

but then does not mention $< anywhere else on the page! Perhaps less universally portable...

[shadowspawn]

Thanks @kaiquekandykoga

[shadowspawn]

Released in v9.0.1