Reference: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13760>
Hello, and sorry for the shameful delay. Boris Kolpackov wrote: > > I think if we try to support all make flavors in a combined test, > things will get messy (my other idea was to resort to executing make if > MAKEFLAGS contains more than one word). Seeing that the majority is > probably using GNU make and we can do a really fast test for it, it > would be bad to resort to some pessimistic tests (like running make) > just so that we can support other makes. > This sounds sensible. I've taken this approach of using an "optimized" test for GNU make, and the more messy tests (in a "best-effort" fashion) for non-GNU makes. So, this series should fix automake bug#13760. Testing and comments are welcome. I will proceed to push in a few days if there is no objection. Thanks, Stefano -*-*-*- Stefano Lattarini (3): header vars: can determine whether we are running under GNU make dry-run: with GNU make, prefer $(MFLAGS) over $(MAKEFLAGS) dry-run: don't get confused by '-I' option lib/am/header-vars.am | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- t/list-of-tests.mk | 3 ++- t/make-dryrun.tap | 4 ++-- t/make-is-gnu.sh | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/make-is-gnu.sh -- 1.8.2.1.389.gcaa7d79
