Configure/make problem

[Jonathan Roy]

  Ah ok, thank you. :) Turns out gnumake wasn't properly installed, it
should have been. I discovered it was missing when another package failed
to compile, and it printed a warning about needing gnumake.

  Thanks again,

-Jonathan

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On 8/27/99 at 1:36 PM Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jonathan Roy wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile it outside of the source tree just like the docs
>> recommend. I've always just compiled it in-place in the source tree in
the
>> past with no problems. Thought I should point out this isn't working,
>> although it's very possible I'm doing something wrong... Solaris 2.7
>> machine.
>
>It seems you are using Sun make, right? Sun make is not fully POSIX
>compliant (at least that's what I have been told) and thus won't work
>for objdir != srcdir.
>
>The installation documentation always specified that you should use GNU
>make, but I have now installed the following patch to make this even more
>clearn.
>
>  Provide more details about broken versions of make.
>  Minor markup fixes.
>
> http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/build.html
> 
>Gerald
>
>Index: build.html
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/wwwdocs/htdocs/install/build.html,v
>retrieving revision 1.20
>diff -r1.20 build.html
>4a5
>> 
>11,12c12,17
>< <p>We <b>highly</b> recommend that GCC be built using GNU make; other
>< versions may work, then again they might not.  To be safe build with GNU
make.
>---
>> <p>We <strong>highly</strong> recommend that GCC be built using GNU
make;
>> other versions may work, then again they might not.</p>
>> 
>> <p>(For example, many broken versions of make will fail if you use the
>> recommended setup where <i>objdir</i> is different from <i>srcdir</i>.)
>> 
>21c26
><   gperf.<p>
>---
>>   gperf.
>24c29
><   binutils if they have been properly unpacked into the GCC source
tree.<p>
>---
>>   binutils if they have been properly unpacked into the GCC source tree.
>26c31
><   <li> Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler.<p>
>---
>>   <li> Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler.
>28c33
><   <li> Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.<p>
>---
>>   <li> Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
>53a59
>> 
>96c102
>< <i>Last modified on July 16, 1999.</i>
>---
>> <i>Last modified on August 27, 1999.</i>


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