Sequential build of libjava

Sat Sep 14 08:20:00 GMT 2002

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:19:32AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
>> bl> OK, so what can be done at build invocation time to get this right?
>> I think we've already given all the options.
>> The only thing that can be done within the makefile is to stop "hiding"
> of $(MAKE) within the MULTIDO variable and instead bring $(MAKE) right
> out into the rule, as has already been discussed. So instead of:
>> MULTIDO = $(MAKE)
>> ... : ...
> $(MULTIDO) ...
>> you'd have to avoid MULTIDO and write the makefile as:
>> ... : ...
> $(MAKE) ...
>>> Someone already mentioned that if you know you're using GNU make you can
> fix this problem on the invocation by doing something like:
>> $ make MULTIDO='+$(MAKE)'

Those aren't really solutions; MULTIDO is substituted as true in some
cases by configury. We could do it differently, easily enough - it
just requires a little more autoconfisation, and we can then use
CONDITIONAL for this, I think.
-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer