On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> Only someone completely lacking a gmake would reach the 'else' block,
> and only such a person would be in a position to write a test for
> anything that would replace \$\(MAKE\).
>
> Can anyone do that? Otherwise, I will mark the ticket as STALLED.
Yes, it's probably not hard to do. On Debian, for example,
apt-get install pmake
will install NetBSD's make, which doesn't understand the -C option. I
don't know how hard it would be to build it on OS X.
Once you have that built, just re-arrange your PATH (or rename files) so
that gmake isn't found.
Or, more directly, since the makefiles must contain emulation code for
things like 'make -C' for simpler make implementations anyway, why bother
to include the fancy GNUmake-specific stuff at all? Why not make everyone
use the emulations? That way there's less code to maintain, and everyone
gets to use and test it.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
