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From: | Kevin P. Fleming |
Subject: | Re: problems compiling autoconf |
Date: | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:54:15 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) |
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:GNU software usually requires GNU make. If you don't already have gmake on your system, you'll need to install make-3.80 before proceeding.This statement is not true. Proper GNU software does not normally require GNU make in order to configure, compile, and install, a package. GNU software may require GNU make in order to maintain a package. Any other behavior should be considered a bug in the Makefile.
Mea culpa... I've just seen far too many postings on various lists where people downloaded a package (all packages built with the autotools) and ran into problems when _not_ using GNU make.
So the OP's question implied that his make program was not able to handle autoconf's Makefile... does this mean that autoconf is at fault here?
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