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Re: Make includes (was Re: Time to update documenatiopn regardingsupported make implementations?)
- From: prj at po dot cwru dot edu (Paul Jarc)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:36:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Make includes (was Re: Time to update documenatiopn regardingsupported make implementations?)
- Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
- References: <20030314201027.GA12922@doctormoo>
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com> wrote:
> Is it reasonable to design an autoconf test for Make 'include' features
> (so that we can support .include, include, and whatever other syntaxes
> are available); demand that users use a Make with some such feature;
> and then use @INCLUDE@ to do Make includes in a semi-portable manner?
As someone pointed out a while ago, the user might use a different
make program from the one that ./configure decides to test.
paul