sdd fails to build

[wsiegrist@…]

sdd fails to build on both 10.4 and 10.5.

Errors on 10.5:

RULES/rules1.top:234: incs/Dcc.i386-darwin: No such file or directory
RULES/rules.top:39: RULES/i386-darwin-cc.rul: No such file or directory
RULES/rules.cnf:56: incs/i386-darwin-cc/Inull: No such file or directory
RULES/rules.cnf:57: incs/i386-darwin-cc/rules.cnf: No such file or directory
p incs/i386-darwin-cc
gnumake: p: Command not found
gnumake: [incs/i386-darwin-cc/Inull] Error 127 (ignored)
/bin/sh: incs/i386-darwin-cc/Inull: No such file or directory
gnumake: *** [incs/i386-darwin-cc/Inull] Error 1

Errors on 10.4:

gnumake[3]: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_sdd/work/destroot/opt/local/share/man/man5/makefiles.5] Error 1
        ==> MAKING "install" ON SUBCOMPONENT "SRCROOT/man/man4/makerules.mk"
        ==> LOCALIZING "OBJ/powerpc-darwin-cc/share/man/makerules.5"
        ==> INSTALLING "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_sdd/work/destroot/opt/local/share/man/man5/makerules.5"
chown: bin: Invalid argument
gnumake[3]: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_sdd/work/destroot/opt/local/share/man/man5/makerules.5] Error 1
gnumake[2]: *** [install] Error 2
gnumake[1]: *** [install] Error 2
gnumake: *** [install] Error 2

[anonymous]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[ryandesign@…]

Has duplicate #38384 which shows the same errors on 10.8 as there were on 10.5. I think the first thing we try should be to change the port from using gnumake to using smake, like the error message says. (Programs made by Jörg Schilling seem not to be buildable with a make other than the one made by Jörg Schilling: smake.) smake is an inconvenient build system that makes us jump through many hoops, and the hoops vary slightly depending on the age of the project. We have a half dozen or so ports in MacPorts already of various ages that use smake, so we should find one that's also from around 2004 and use that as a template for what to do with sdd.