------- Comment #3 from pinskia at gmail dot com 2008-12-29 00:49 -------
Subject: Re: toplevel configure script does not test for GNU Make
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:01 PM, bkorb at gnu dot org
<gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> ------- Comment #2 from bkorb at gnu dot org 2008-12-28 23:01 -------
> It would seem to me that requiring one to read through installation
> documentation is unreasonable when a trivial change to the configure script
> can
> tell the hapless builder what is wrong. You are correct in that it is
> documented. But adding a useful error message in configure is still the right
> thing to do.
>
> Something like this:
>
> --- configure.ac (revision 140070)
> +++ configure.ac (working copy)
> @@ -160,13 +160,24 @@
> #
> host_libs="intl mmalloc libiberty opcodes bfd readline tcl tk itcl libgui
> zlib
> libcpp libdecnumber gmp mpfr ppl cloog"
>
> +[MAKE=${MAKE-make}
> +case "`${MAKE} --version`" in
> +"GNU Make "* ) : ;;
> +* ) MAKE=gmake
> + case "`${MAKE} --version`" in
> + "GNU Make "* ) : ;;
> + * ) AC_MSG_ERROR([GNU Make is required to build]) ;;
> + esac
> + ;;
> +esac ]
Except this is only true for if the toplevel includes gcc sources
since the toplevel configure is used for more than GCC.
-- Pinski
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29311
