Re: building HEAD needs GNU make

[Ralf Wildenhues]

> * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:03:43PM CET:
> > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/24/2007 5:55 AM:
> > > Our convoluted build rules in HEAD's Makefile.am currently pretty much
> > > require GNU make. [...]
> 
> > That's a bit of a shame: since the eventual M4 2.0 depends on Libtool, you
> > are now adding one more hard dependency into the mix when bootstrapping a
> > non-GNU system to support the GNU toolchain (with M4 1.4.x, the system
> > make and system C compiler were adequate).[...]

There may be a misunderstanding here: M4 2.0 itself does not need GNU
make to build.  Well, it does, but not because of M4 using Libtool.
Rather because of the brain-dead^W^W^Whelpful-for-development stamp-vcl
updating rules that M4's Makefile.am also has.

Not sure if your comment implied that you knew this or not, so I guess
I should mention this.

Cheers,
Ralf