Re: Some minor issues with 5.96

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> isn't it already documented that if you want a VPATH build to succeed,
> you have to have GNU make?

It's not just GNU make; the Autoconf documentation says "recent" make.
However, at this point Solaris 2.6 no longer qualifies as "recent", so
I don't think to worry about its VPATH bugs.

As it happens I looked this up yesterday, and found that Solaris 2.6
is so old that Sun will stop supporting it on July 23, which means
that we can stop worrying about it then too.  Here's a handy URL that
summarizes the dates for end of service life for Sun operating
systems:

http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.html