Sequential build of libjava

Fri Sep 13 14:56:00 GMT 2002

%% Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
 >> We can't rely on GNU make (libjava does, but that is a bug).
 >> So we can only do this if someone writes the configury code to detect
 >> this situation.
 bl> In other words, configure should figure out if we're using gnu
 bl> make, and if so, put a plus sign there in the definition of
 bl> MULTIDO.
It's not hard for configure to find out if a given make is GNU
make... here's an easy test:
 echo 'all:;@echo $(MAKE_VERSION)' | make -f-
If this returns with 3.*, for example, it's GNU make. Or you could just
run "make --version".
The problem, and the reason configure doesn't do this now, is that make
is the user's tool... how does configure fine the make that the user
will run?
What if configure finds "/usr/bin/make", but then the user types "gmake"
to invoke the build? Or something?
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