Re: Solaris `make' problem

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>]

> [Are you sure it was me?  I have always used GNU make on BSD and
>  believe that it is quite reasonable to force everyone to use GNU make
>  to build gcc especially if we can simplify the chaotic Makefile
>  structure (of course, people have been doing some great work in this
>  area without requiring a move to GNU make).  However, I'm sure that
>  there are other BSD folks that don't like this line of thinking.  And
>  please note that I am not a BSD developer.]

Perhaps not.

> However, it would be VERY annoying if a bootstrap bails out after an
> hour or more of compiling due to a "late" configure step failing.

True.

> IMHO, if libstdc++-v3 is going to have this dependency and check for
> it, I think it must be propagated to the top-level Makefile that is
> built and we need to bail out ASAP upon targets that most people would
> be expected to run (i.e. bootstrap*).

Right.

I believe the correct fix for this is to have automake do the job of 
installing headers. From my other posts on this subject today, it doesn't 
look like this will happen in the near future.

-benjamin