"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> The whole entire point of using automake is to allow packages to ship > with makefiles that are 100% portable without having to go through all > the effort to write them--which is considerable if you don't use the > flexibility of a powerful make program like GNU make. I am guilty of terrible bias when it comes to GNU make. I simply will not learn about any other make or <shudder> attempt to use one. I can't think of a project important enough that I'd subject myself to that ;-). I think GNU 'make' is the Cat's Meow :-). > sa> -- users might sometimes have some other (lesser ;-) 'make' > sa> installed that they need to build GNU 'make' with. > > Or not have any make at all. > > The correct answer to this situation is to use the build.sh shell script > to bootstrap make. If you have a shell in MINGW you can use it > directly. There's also a Windows .bat file IIRC. I know :-). I just am not very interested in building anything (even 'make' itself) without using GNU make. I do understand all this about the portability issues and bootstrapping and all. I'd personally just rather not have to think at all about it. You, I know, don't have that luxury ;-). Soren A _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
