Re: problems compiling autoconf

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, 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.

gcc requires GNU make.  When I first saw this some time ago, the breakage
was trivial and could have been easily addressed.  But that's some time
ago (and probably a bigger problem now).

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