On Wed, 14 May 2025 11:04:50 +0200 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Work around what appears to be a GNU make bug handling MAKEFLAGS Before I say Yes, could someone please tell me why this rumored bug is responsible for so much boilerplate in our Makefile.am files? You say, > Unlike some runtime libs that can get away without setting > AM_MAKEFLAGS and friends, libgcobol can not since it then tries to > link the 64-bit libgcobol with 32-bit libstdc++. but I don't see the connection between that and 20 lines of definition resting on "what appears to be a bug". I guess I can live with "no one knows, that's what we do." But I'm sure I'm not alone in preferring to understand how the build builds. --jkl
