Re: Time to update documentation regarding supported makeimplementations?

[Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>]

DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com> writes:

>> (3) (all branches since libjava was rolled into the main tree and
>> especially since it was made the default for many/most/all platforms:)
>> 
>> GNU make required due to explicit use of GNU make "include file" feature.

> Yeah, I don't like this either.

Calling it a GNU make feature is a bit questionable, though, unless
something more than just "include file" is happening.  The latter is
supported by, e.g., Solaris make.  We've been requiring "include file" for
INN builds for eons, and I know it works with plenty of makes other than
the GNU make.

It *doesn't* work with some BSD make programs that expect .include instead
of include, though.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford dot edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>