On 14 Jul 2011, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Ben Summers <b...@fluffy.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> If I run the ./configure script, Solaris make (which isn't GNU make) will >> ignore GNUmakefile and build a broken binary again! >> > > The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, writes (and i agree with him > wholeheartedly, after having spent many painful years maintaining Solaris > systems): > > "Don't hassle with writing portable makefiles, use a portable make > instead!" > > That's Rule #1 on Paul's list of Make rules ( > http://make.paulandlesley.org/rules.html). > > gmake is available for every odd platform out there, though it is not always > installed by default.
I'm not arguing for or against using GNU make, I'm just suggesting that if typing ./configure && make or even just make builds a broken binary without any error message, then it's probably not the best solution. Ben -- http://bens.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
