Re: Bug in coreutils/man/Makefile.am

[Daniel Richard G.]

I made do with gmake, but it's typical for an Autotools-based source tree
to support out-of-tree builds without needing GNU Make. I haven't seen that
blurb in the generic INSTALL file, but from experience, most cases where 
non-GNU make programs fail are due to bugs....

Is it really accurate to refer to e.g. basename.c as "../src/basename.c"? I
can see this getting dicey for false.c---maybe an "if MAINTAINER_MODE"
conditional would be warranted there---but otherwise, all those source
files live squarely in $(top_srcdir)/src.


Regards,


--Daniel


On Tue, 2004 Nov 02 11:36:05 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Daniel Richard G." <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Building coreutils-5.2.1 on a Sun machine, with the source tree on a 
> > separate read-only NFS mount:
> 
> Sun's "make" doesn't support VPATH well.  As mentioned in the
> coreutils INSTALL file, you need a version of "make" that supports
> VPATH if you want to build from a separate source tree.
> 
> Please download and install GNU make, and use that.  If you're using
> Solaris 9, /opt/sfw/bin/gmake (in the SFWgmake package) should work.

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