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Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- To: bug-gcc at gnu dot org, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- From: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:24:39 +0900 (JST)
Alexandre wrote:
On Jan 28, 2001, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:
> In fact, telling autoconf to substitute <tab> for <tab>+ in a Makefile if
> the chosen make does not handle + is probably the way to go.
AO> The problem is that configure doesn't know which make program the user
AO> is going to use.
The way XEmacs solves this problem is by generating _both_ a
GNUmakefile and a Makefile. You can use the cool GNU Make features in
GNUmakefile and leave the Makefile plain and simple (and perhaps not
supporting objdir != srcdir, etc...)