Re: build system cleanups for BSD

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 06:19:18 EST

Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> writes:

|> 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?

AFAIK there are some grotty old make programs that don't set MAKE
themselves. But since GNU make is required anyway those programs can be
safely ignored. 

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