Re: Require GNU Make Somehow?

[Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>]

>I'm confused about a g77 configure.in as I thought there was policy
>against one, but there used to be a test in config-lang.in for srcdir
>!= builddir.  That just warned about the need for GNU make at
>configure time.  I'll look into sorting something out for g77's
>makefile, but it presumably won't kick in until g77 starts building.

Oops, I meant config-lang.in, not configure.in, you're right.  Yes,
the test and message have gone away; I don't mind resurrecting
them, but feel that's really the job of the top-level makefile
to do, in this case, gcc's and egcs's, and thinking down that
avenue led to my original email on this topic.

>Indeed.  If I want GNU make, I'd be (should be) typing `gmake' on a
>non-GNU system and a test is needed at compile time, not configure
>time.

Right, though it might be most straightforward and reliable to
have configure time lay a sort of "trap" that is either avoided
by using GNU make at compile time, or triggered by not using
GNU make then, and the effect of the trap is to print a nice
message and exit.

        tq vm, (burley)