Dear Paul and all others, > > I hoped that user runs autoconf and autoconf will decide > > whether to execute "make" or "gmake" or whatever else. > > Autoconf looks only for 'make', and historically this has worked well on > Solaris because most packages do not assume GNU Make. If you want to > configure with 'gmake' on Solaris, you can use './configure MAKE=gmake'. > > It might be nice for someone to contribute changes to Autoconf, for > packages that want to assume GNU Make semantics. Presumably this would > be a new macro. I'll cc this to autoconf@xxxxxxx. Now I understand all background, thanks. The idea of autoconf was to run automatical script and then "relax" and automatical sctipt solves all peculiarities of target platform. regards Jara