Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3139] GNU make required

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:11:48AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> Two people have written to me in the past week who have experienced
> trouble building the Vanilla package under OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
> 
> The problem is one we know of; sinclude is not recognised by their
> default "make", but is by "gmake", but if they use "gmake" the top level
> Makefile forks a "make".
> 
> What is the "correct" solution?

Use $(MAKE) instead of "make" in the Makefiles.

> Have configure check for gmake and use it?  How?

Complain to the BSD make people to add the sinclude directive.  :)

We can replace "sinclude" with "include" and bundle a dummy dependency
file instead.

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