On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > > 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.
That's the case ... though this boilerplate is not used consistently. Richard. > > --jkl
