Re: automake without make?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Andrés,

* "Andrés G. Aragoneses" wrote on Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:32:26AM CET:
> Can automake be used without having make installed? If yes, in which
> kind of scenarios? I'm just thinking that, if there's no scenario, the
> automake package in a distro should depend on the make package, right?

In addition to Russ' reply, it should be possible to use any make
implementation (that roughly conforms to POSIX), so a dependency
on, say, GNU make, would be stricter than necessary.  For example,
Debian also packages BSD make (as pmake) and that does just fine
with files generated by automake.

Cheers,
Ralf