On Nov 10, 2007 4:40 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> Stefan, if I remember correctly, believed that MAKE should always be
> set regardless of PATH. I defer to his opinion.

Strictly technically speaking the whichever "make" program should set
the environment
variable $MAKE.

But not all of them do that, so the safest thing to do is to
explicitly set MAKE in your
environment (to whichever make you are using). When dealing with ./configure
and the auto* thingies build systems, the safest make variety to use
is GNU make.

./configure scripts usually check if $MAKE is set. Freetype's
./configure won't even
allow you to run it if $MAKE is not set to point to GNU make, for example.

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman at gmail.com

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