Re: Solaris `make' problem

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:26:34PM -0600, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> 
> BTW, libstdc++-v3/configure does indeed check for GNU make and will
> indeed error out if it is not found.  However, it doesn't check to see
> if that is the make currently running configure during a bootstrap

I must admit I had never considered that.  Boy is my face red.

> nor does it force
> a user to run GNU make later (could it ever?)...

The closest we do is to echo the discovered name ("gmake", or whatever)
when printing the last-minute reminder instructions at the end of configure.
That was from the days when we could manually configure and then build,
all on its own, instead of doing it from the top level all at once.


> 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.

Better late than never.  Or rather, better fail with a good error message
describing the problem, rather than misbehave later with a strange message.
I submit this patch should be applied.

Phil

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