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Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make


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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