I'm thinking about requiring GNU make (gmake), instead of trying to work with whatever make we find.
If we do require gmake, is anybody going to have any heartburn? I don't think it's that big a deal to require GNU make. There are lots of dependencies already, and it's likely that some of them already require GNU make. It's too bad to lose portability to 'reasonable make', but it seems that BSD make and GNU make have incompatible extensions and various things are hard to do staying in the subset. I would expect that any NetBSD system that has the prereqs for GNU Radio installed will already have GNU make installed, or else if the prereqs are from binary packages gmake could be installed as well. It will be important that there be no use of 'make' in the makefiles for recursion, and that we use $(MAKE) or whatever the right incantation is so that gmake is invoked, rather than 'make' which is BSD make on BSD systems, and probably some native make on Solaris. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
