SUN make and gcc 3.0: committed changes to branch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 31, 2001, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:

>> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> Date: 31 May 2001 03:15:12 -0300

>> Incidentally, automake supports srcdir != objdir only when using GNU
>> make, because other makes are way too broken in VPATH support.

> No, I don't see where the automake manual says it requires GNU
> make for that.

Not everything is in the manual :-)

> Besides, in some places, such as lib/am/check.am, there are
> constructs to cater to SUN make VPATH peculiarities.

Then, perhaps there is still hope.

> I guess we can patch this up to work until automake is fixed.  I'll
> test that.

Thanks,

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