Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:
>> Do you think we should just require GNU Make in that situation? Or
>> build
>> '[' as a different file name, so the target is supported and then do
>> something like 'mv src/intermediate-lbracket src/[' so we can support
>> it?
>
> Ah that's probably it.
> We shouldn't jump through too many hoops for this though.
> Maybe something to explicitly fail in this case is fine
> by looking for the built [ file rather than
> just relying on exec resolution.
Old thread, but I just noticed README-install mentions that AIX make
cannot build '[' and recommends to just use GNU Make.
It seems like the AIX people figured it out since the source RPM depends
on GNU Make [1]:
$ rpm --query --package --requires coreutils-9.5-1.src.rpm \
| grep -F make
make
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[1]
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-open-source-software-downloads-alpha
