Re: Using GNU Make

[Reuben Thomas]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> What do you mean by "allow it to be required".  You can require it now
> for your package using autotools.

Right, and my original question was to ask "how do I require GNU Make in an 
autotoolised package?" I'm still don't see an "official" answer to that 
question, only an autoconf archive macro.

> Well, if your package is an official GNU one, then I'm not so sure.

Indeed, that's a different matter.

> > There are a number of times where I've had to work around
> > the lack of GNU make features which are over 10 years old, which seems
> > increasingly silly. For my present project, GNU Zile, which strives to be
> > buildable on any system that conforms with 1993 POSIX, this is fair
> > enough, but increasingly new projects will quite reasonably be assuming
> > POSIX.1-2001, if nothing else because free documentation is widely
> > available for it, unlike the 1993 version.
>
> But POSIX.1.2001 doesn't specify wildcards for `make', either.

Sure. But in the same way as new projects might reasonably assume a newer 
version of POSIX than GNU Zile, unless there is POSIX standardisation of 
newer make features, it will soon be desirable to use newer make features. 
If one can't do that, what is the point of the extra GNU and BSD make 
features?

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