On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:19:27PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2019-05-31 09:37:02 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:Of course, if anyone has an idea how to do this in a way that works portably, we can revisit. But for now I consider their build issues more important than the minor convenience for developers.How about using AM_CONDITIONAL in configure.ac, setting a variable GNU_MAKE when GNU Make is used (based on "make --version" output)?
That might be a workable idea. I worry about making assumptions about the 'make' program that will be used, though. It's possible the user will invoke another make program outside of the search path, in certain environments. Or am I just being too paranoid... :-)
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