On 6/15/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
These days, there aren't fifteen different versions of UNIX. There's a couple, and it's perfectly ok to actually say "fix your damn system and just install GNU make". It's easier to install GNU make than it is to install autoconf/automake.
It's easier to learn GNUmake than to learn autoconf/automake or jam, too. However, the idea of compiling small pieces of main() at the configure-time to automatically figure what exactly is available -- I like how well this approach works. It works more precisely than relying on uname. Yakov - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html