Hello,

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:16:37PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > that was my intention.  If you give --srcdir explicitely, you are
> > on your own.
...
> That text makes it clear that a user can expect to need GNU make if
> he uses a different directory. Not if he specifies the --srcdir option.
> And "configure --help" doesn't say that --srcdir forces use of GNU make
> either.

there are non-GNU makes which do VPATH, I think.  (Solaris make?)

Oh well, the solution suggested by Tim should solve all cases.

Stepan


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