Re: build system cleanups for BSD

From: Jonathan Walther (krooger@debian.org)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 12:30:47 EST


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Thanks. You are right. Didn't know that about GNU make.
But now I have to wonder: why was the line

MAKE = make

put there in the first place? Did it serve a purpose? Will
anyone scream if its simply removed?

Jonathan

On 23 Mar 2000, Markus Sundberg wrote:
> Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> writes:
> > 2) on systems that have gmake installed, you probably want
> > it to be the default MAKE (eg, the *BSD's)
>
> That should really be:
>
> diff -U2 -r linux.orig/Makefile linux/Makefile
> --- linux.orig/Makefile Sun Mar 19 10:16:36 2000
> +++ linux/Makefile Thu Mar 23 07:02:48 2000
> @@ -34,5 +34,4 @@
> OBJCOPY = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy
> OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
> -MAKE = make
> MAKEFILES = $(TOPDIR)/.config
> GENKSYMS = /sbin/genksyms
>
> as GNU make sets MAKE itself.

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