Lire requires GNU Make (was: Re: the workaround ...)

[Joost van Baal]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:47:33PM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> On October 30, 2004 10:18, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > Hrm: we now have _two_ issues with using Lire on Solaris:
> >
> >  - Lire fails to build with Solaris Make.  (Updating the Lire build system
> >    to a newer automake will likely solve this).  Workaround: use GNU Make.
> 
> It is not automake related. The Makefile.am in the po subdirectories use
> GNU Make extensions. So Lire *requires* GNU Make.

*eek* !

Hrm, I am considering fixing this.  Wolfgang: you've written
po/Makefile.am, haven't you?  Did you write it from scratch?  Or was it
inspired by some other project's Makefile.am?

Using the autotools is kinda weird when requiring GNU Make, imho.  It
defeats the purpose.

Bye,

Joost

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