Re: BSD Make

[Larry Jones]

Tom Tromey writes:
> 
> Can you test the appended patch?  If it works I will check it in.  I
> don't have access to a BSD `make' to try it.

It works save for one bug:

> Index: m4/make.m4
[...]
> @@ -11,14 +10,27 @@
>  # If we don't find an include directive, just comment out the code.
>  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for style of include used by $am_make])
>  _am_include='#'
> -for am_inc in include .include; do

Here you delete the do...

> -   echo "$am_inc confinc" > confmf
> +_am_quote=
> +_am_result=none
> +# First try GNU make style include.
> +echo "include confinc" > confmf
> +if test "`$am_make -s -f confmf 2> /dev/null`" = "done"; then
> +   _am_include=include
> +   _am_quote=
> +   _am_result=GNU
> +fi
> +# Now try BSD make style include.
> +if test "$_am_include" = "#"; then
> +   echo '.include "confinc"' > confmf
>     if test "`$am_make -s -f confmf 2> /dev/null`" = "done"; then
> -      _am_include=$am_inc
> -      break
> +      _am_include=.include
> +      _am_quote='"'
> +      _am_result=BSD
>     fi
> +fi
>  done

... but here you neglected to delete the matching done.  After
correcting that, it works fine with BSD make and with GNU make.

-Larry Jones

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