On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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. gcc requires GNU make. When I first saw this some time ago, the breakage was trivial and could have been easily addressed. But that's some time ago (and probably a bigger problem now). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
