Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 02:01:15AM CEST: > Is there a standard way to make an autotoolised build system require GNU > Make? I'm getting a bit fed up having to express everything in POSIX make > when most systems now seem to have GNU Make, even where it's not > installed as the default make.
In addition to Mike's suggestion: Use some GNU make-specific construct in your Makefile.am over which all others barf? Now, barfing "nicely" might be a bit of a problem. You could test '$MAKE --help' at configure time, but the problem is, few users remember to use './configure MAKE=gmake && gmake', most just do './configure && gmake'. You would teach them! :-) Cheers, Ralf
