On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > > GNU software usually requires GNU make. If you don't already have gmake > on your system, you'll need to install make-3.80 before proceeding. This statement is not true. Proper GNU software does not normally require GNU make in order to configure, compile, and install, a package. GNU software may require GNU make in order to maintain a package. Any other behavior should be considered a bug in the Makefile. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen