On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009 20:01:15 Reuben Thomas wrote:
Is there a standard way to make an autotoolised build system require GNU
Make? I'm getting a bit fed up having to express everything in POSIX make
when most systems now seem to have GNU Make, even wh
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
You could test '$MAKE --help' at configure time, but the problem is, few
users remember to use './configure MAKE=gmake && gmake', most just do
'./configure && gmake'. You would teach them! :-)
Ah, so there's no test that does this already?
I would i
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:44:48PM CEST:
> I would imagine an AC_MAKE_GNU (or somesuch) that looks at make's help
> output, then tries gmake (and gnumake?) if make is not GNU Make.
>
> Oh, and I've just found "check_gnu_make.m4" in autoconf-archive.
Ah, I didn't know this m
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:44:48PM CEST:
I would imagine an AC_MAKE_GNU (or somesuch) that looks at make's help
output, then tries gmake (and gnumake?) if make is not GNU Make.
Oh, and I've just found "check_gnu_make.m4" in autoc
On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:35:08 Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:44:48PM CEST:
> >> I would imagine an AC_MAKE_GNU (or somesuch) that looks at make's help
> >> output, then tries gmake (and gnumake?) if make is
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
maybe use GNUmakefile.am rather than Makefile.am ? and then keep a dummy
Makefile around that merely says "hey sucka, GNU-make only!" and/or just re-
run the specified command as gmake ...
Thanks. I've actually for one reason and another managed to av
On Saturday 04 April 2009 14:55:01 Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > maybe use GNUmakefile.am rather than Makefile.am ? and then keep a dummy
> > Makefile around that merely says "hey sucka, GNU-make only!" and/or just
> > re- run the specified command as gmake .
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
what would be cool is if automake processed some GNU makeisms in the .am ->
.in step. personally, i use some things like $(wildcard) and $(patsubst)
because i hate having to hand maintain a huge list of files -- i inevitably
add more and forget to updat
