Re: Missing INSTALL instructions for GNU make 4.3

[Paul Smith]

This missing INSTALL file has been reported before.  It's surely a
poser because I haven't touched that package building stuff in a while.
I thought automake just handled it.  Clearly something changed :)


On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Sort of causes one to wonder about the chicken and egg scenario
> of a machine which has no previous "make" anywhere.  That would be
> interesting. Probably have to fall back on pure scripts.

GNU make ships with a "build.sh" shell script that can be run (after
configure) to compile make when you don't have a make program.

This is discussed in the README file.

There's a build_w32.bat as well, for Windows.