Re: make error in base on Solaris

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 09:36, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:

> However, gnu-make (I'm not an expert,  just reading the documentation) allows 
> double-colon rules, where you can huve multiple rules for a target each with 
> a separate recipe (as long as there are no single colon rules for the same 
> target).
> So it might be possible to change this code to
> 
> base.make:: Version
>        ./configure
> 
> base.make:: config.status base.make.in
>        ./$< $@
> 
> However I don't know whether that would cause dependency issues (eg the first 
> rule creates a config.status, and then the second rule gets applied as well).

That seemed to work in a few tests I did, so I comitted it ... would be good if 
someoen more knowledgable could check though.