Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> We want ./configure ARGS; make ARGS  to be a universal recipe
> for building any package.  It's not good enough if
> users have to hand-simulate it.

These days typically the only 'hand-simulation' needed on non-GNU platforms is 
to put the right 'make' into one's PATH. I'm not sure I'd call that 
'hand-simulation' - it's more just preparing the proper build environment.

I suppose the problem could be worked around by having 'configure' check whether 
'make' supports GNU 'make' features, and if not installing a dummy Makefile that 
turns around and calls GNU 'make' (whatever its name is) with the real 
'makefile'. However, given that nobody has complained about the problem since 
September 2016 when Emacs 25 was released, adding a workaround for this issue 
surely cannot be high priority, as anybody who was likely to have run into the 
issue has almost surely figured things out already.