>>a little digging on my own at the time made it seem like solaris make is >>really gmake > > > Well, the way you have it installed perhaps. But attempting this > against /usr/ccs/bin/make it most definately blows up.
ok. I actually don't have a solaris box to try on - I just went to sun's support site and saw that the manpage for make was gmake (at least the one that google first pointed me toward :) > > >>, so between linux, solaris, and bsd a decent case was being >>made that most unix make variants to support the syntax. of course, >>that list of 3 was hardly exhaustive :) > > > Hardly. The man page for hpux 11 make makes no mention of ?= > nor does AIX 5.1. you are 2 for 5. yeah, not good. > > Explicitly fails on native make(s) on AIX 5.1, HPUX 11, Solaris 2.6. > Please find another solution. well, the solution at the moment is to not have a solution - cvs has been reverted, so unless a real solution can be found it will remain a minor nit. > p.s. simple test I used... > > TERM ?= uberterm > all: > echo $(TERM) the gmake manual suggests that ?= is equivalent to ifeq ($(origin TEST_VERBOSE), undefined) TEST_VERBOSE = 0 endif so that might make for a good test - the gmake manual didn't speficially say that origin was explicit to it, but then again it didn't mention ?= either :) --Geoff
