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Re: question about Makefiles
- To: tromey at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: question about Makefiles
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:31:54 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <87ogqdpf1z.fsf@cygnus.com>you write:
> I didn't see this explictly mentioned anywhere, so I thought I'd ask
> to make sure: does egcs require that its Makefiles work with any
> `make', and not just GNU make?
gnu-make is recommended, particularly when building srcdir != objdir.
We'd like to be able to support vendor makes when building in
srcdir.
egcs-1.1 requires gnu-make due to some lossage in the texinfo dir which
has been fixed in the mainline tree.
jeff