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Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap fails with FreeBSD make
- From: Marc Espie <espie at schutzenberger dot liafa dot jussieu dot fr>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:56:11 +0100
- Cc: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>, gcc at linux dot globe-tec dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200101280208.DAA29969@quatramaran.ens.fr> <orsnm3bh5d.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
- Reply-To: Marc dot Espie at liafa dot jussieu dot fr
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:39:26PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva 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.
>
> The problem is that configure doesn't know which make program the user
> is going to use.
configure is stupid, that's a given :) This looks like something the end
user would have to specify, with a reasonable default (look for MAKE in
the environment, or search for the first make in PATH, or allow for
--with-make= option, in that order).