Re: Fucked up gnustep-make

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 13 Feb 2007, at 17:08, Andrew Sveikauskas wrote:

> On 2007-02-13 15:40:26 -0500 Richard Frith-Macdonald  
> <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Now, anyone using gnustep-make must be using gnu-make, which  
> > supports  the --version flag.  So the question is why your system  
> > barfed?  It  must have been running some other make somehow.
>
> The reason should be fairly obvious when you consider the offending  
> line:
>
> > >      gs_cv_make_version=`make --version | head -1 | sed -e 's/^ 
> > > [^0-9]*//'`
>
> Note that "make" is hard coded in there.  That'll result in the  
> shell looking for a program called "make".  On non-GNU systems,  
> this is not GNU make.
>
> What you want is:
>
>    gs_cv_make_version=`$(MAKE) --version | head -1 | sed -e 's/^ 
> [^0-9]*//'`
>
> And the MAKE variable will resolve to the appropriate command for  
> GNU make.

I just found where the problem is coming from ... it's in  
configure.ac/configure
Unfortunately, the MAKE variable does not exist here, so this fix  
won't work.

Unless someone knows better, I think we need a test/code here to find  
gnu-make on the system and use it.
Is there a standard way of doing that in autoconf?