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Re: 19980914 snapshot make problem
>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes:
David> EGCS builds these days are unsupported with any make other
David> than GNU make.
Were it not for the fact that I don't have easy access to a non-GNU
make, I would try to write and test something like this:
check-gnu-make:
(expr `$(MAKE) --version` | grep GNU) || \
(echo "You must use GNU Make to build GCC" && false)
Perhaps some shell-script/make portability expert could whip up
something suitable. Then, we could have the top-level
bootstrap/default targets depend on this, which would greatly reduce
the number of times we see this FAQ.
In a former job, we used something like this internally, because we
had so many makes lying around and would accidentally get the wrong
one.
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