On 8/16/2010 9:06 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, John Calcote wrote: >> >> The warning you're seeing is harmless enough on platforms that support >> GNU make. The purpose of the warning is to let you know that your users >> will not be able to build your project on systems that support the >> Autotools, but do not support GNU make (not many these days). > > While GNU make may be 'supported' on a wide variety of systems, that > does not mean that it is the default 'make' program on a system, or > available on the system by default. The user may need to do something > special in order to install and invoke GNU make. > > If depending on GNU make was considered ok, then Automake would have > been developed quite differently than it is. Given current Automake > objectives, it is wise that individual projects also try to avoid GNU > make syntax in Makefile.am.
Excellent point Bob. John
