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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: Makefile to Makefile.am |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:06:40 -0500 (CDT) |
| User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, John Calcote wrote:
The warning you're seeing is harmless enough on platforms that support GNU make. The purpose of the warning is to let you know that your users will not be able to build your project on systems that support the Autotools, but do not support GNU make (not many these days).
While GNU make may be 'supported' on a wide variety of systems, that does not mean that it is the default 'make' program on a system, or available on the system by default. The user may need to do something special in order to install and invoke GNU make.
If depending on GNU make was considered ok, then Automake would have been developed quite differently than it is. Given current Automake objectives, it is wise that individual projects also try to avoid GNU make syntax in Makefile.am.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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