Re: Support for Interix 5.2 and 6.0?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Martin,

* Martin Koeppe wrote on Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:10:48PM CEST:
> 
> However, I now found out why 'make' is called. Interix make has some 
> standard build rules in /usr/share/mk/sys.mk, which also define 
> MAKE=make. When calling "make.itx -r", then MAKE and also MAKEFLAGS 
> are set correctly and sys.mk isn't read.
> 
> When using Interix make without -r, AC_PROC_MAKE_SET isn't smart 
> enough to check if MAKE is not just set, but also set correctly.

Yeah, I guess Autoconf needs a patch there.  Could you try configuring
with
  ./configure MAKE=make.itx ac_cv_prog_make_make_itx_set=no

please?  If an autoconf rerun is triggered, you _need_ 2.61 to avoid a
related bug.

> When OTOH one calls
> $ ./configure MAKE=make.itx MAKEFLAGS=-r
> and later
> $ make.itx -r
> then libtool and/or automake apparently isn't smart enough to call 
> recursive makes as "$(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS)" instead of just "$(MAKE)", 
> so the second recursion fails again.

Oh, for that you can try to use AM_MAKEFLAGS.

> Why, however, ./configure is called a second time with make.itx and 
> not with make.gnu, I couldn't yet figure out. Maybe someone has some 
> hints?

Not yet.  Maybe we still have some nonportable construct in there; or
Interix make figures something out wrongly.  Dunno.

Cheers, and thanks,
Ralf