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Re: 19980914 snapshot make problem
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:22:13 -0700
From: Mark Mitchell <mark@markmitchell.com>
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.
Isn't existance VPATH a good test? Do other makes implement this
feature in this way?
Actually, I just checked the glibc toplevel configure script and it
has a make test. It tests for having at least a certain minimal
version of make but it seems to not test for GNU make specifically.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com