Re: problems compiling autoconf

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:54:15AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> just seen far too many postings on various lists where 
> people downloaded a package (all packages built with the autotools) and 
> ran into problems when _not_ using GNU make.

FWIW, it's clear to me from reading the Automake list that
portability of Automake-generated Makefiles is very important to
that tool's maintainers.  So the above assertion is quite
surprising, and if it's accurate, I'm sure the Automake folks
would find it rather alarming.

> So the OP's question implied that his make program was not able to 
> handle autoconf's Makefile... does this mean that autoconf is at fault here?

Well, I rather doubt that OpenBSD "make" is intentionally
unsupported; thus, the observed behaviour would indeed seem to be
a bug.  Whether the bug is in one of Autoconf's Makefile.am's, or
in Automake's processing of a correct Makefile.am, I wouldn't
know.

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