Dear Paul and all others,

> > I hoped that user runs autoconf and autoconf will decide 
> > whether to execute "make" or "gmake" or whatever else.
> 
> Autoconf looks only for 'make', and historically this has worked well on 
> Solaris because most packages do not assume GNU Make. If you want to 
> configure with 'gmake' on Solaris, you can use './configure MAKE=gmake'.
> 
> It might be nice for someone to contribute changes to Autoconf, for 
> packages that want to assume GNU Make semantics. Presumably this would 
> be a new macro. I'll cc this to autoconf@gnu.org.

Now I understand all background, thanks.

The idea of autoconf was to run automatical script and then "relax" and 
automatical 
sctipt solves all peculiarities of target platform.

regards
   Jara






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