On 29-08-2006 09:34:42 +0200, Stefan Manegold wrote:
(Oh, yes, the Solaris specific information that you need to use "gmake" is not in the general README of buildtools --- we do require GNU make on all Unix systems; and GNU/Linux, GNU make is the default ("make") on other Unixes (IRIX, Solaris, AIX?), "make" is the "native" (BSD?) make, while GNU make is called "gmake" --- same holds for various other GNU variants of standard Unix tools.)
(That triggers for me a discussion on the very point of GNU is not Linux (or UNIX). I know we require GNU make, but does our configure script check that? Also if we really require GNU awk, do we use gawk instead of awk consistently? The BSD awk is in some regards more "awk"ward than GNU awk is. Unfortunately Linux distros don't install gsed, gfind and gxargs, but they do have differences too. I have "field experiences" with the differences from the development of Gentoo on OSX and FreeBSD, and we were there able to eliminate a lot of GNU-isms in favour of POSIX compliance.)