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Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- To: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Jan 2001 10:34:50 -0200
- Cc: bug-gcc at gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <14965.24839.245001.842371@mule.m17n.org>
On Jan 29, 2001, Martin Buchholz <martin@xemacs.org> wrote:
> 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.
But GNU make is not the only make program that supports `+', VPATH and
$(MAKE). Should we arbitrarily rule these features out for users of
non-GNU makes?
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