On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 19:46 +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I'm getting bitten by the VPATH-handling differences between FreeBSD's > make and gmake.
The automake manual says (somewhere) that the only version of make that correctly supports out-of-the-tree builds is GNU make. The VPATH capability in every other version of make that I'm aware of, including BSD make and SysV make, is just plain borked (IMNSHO). My personal suggestion would be to follow that advice and simply document that out-of-the-tree builds are not supported by your project unless the user uses GNU make. It's very difficult for autotools to detect and work around make issues, because there's absolutely no guarantee that the "make" program that autoconf/etc. finds and uses will be the one the user actually invokes to build the project. Users are not accustomed to saying "./configure MAKE=gmake" or similar. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
