On 11/23/2011 8:08 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Beyond that, it mostly comes down to this simple question: "What do I
type in order to invoke GNU make on this system"?
No, that's easily wrapped. Aautoconf can write out both a GNUmakefile
and a Makefile.
When both are present, GNU make will read GNUmakefile unless forced to
do otherwise via -f. So, it will contain the actual build instructions.
The generated Makefile is just a compatibility wrapper, to sit across
the many paths whereby a non-GNU make could be run instead. Basically,
it looks like this:
all clean install [more targets]:
gmake $@
The name 'gmake' is detected by autoconf, in the same sort of way it
currently figures out what your C compiler is called.
