Re: New module gnu-make

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 11/15/2007 5:03 PM:
> The first module, "gnu-make", addresses the problem that coreutils
> currently relies on a GNU Make extension that isn't defined in POSIX.
> Adding this feature will make it easy to write Makefiles that can take
> advantage of this, by putting something like this into Makefile.am:
> 
>       if GNU_MAKE
>               [nicer features that work only with GNU Make]
>       else
>               [fallback features that work in any 'make' implementation]
>       endif

I'm wondering if this feature could also be useful for projects that have
a maintainer's GNUMakefile, but want to perform VPATH builds.  In other
words, by using this module, could we add some sort of:

if GNU_MAKE
include $(top_srcdir)/GNUMakefile
endif

that automatically pulls in the GNUMakefile without having to symlink it
into the VPATH build tree?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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