FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:42:42PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:

> There's a test in configure to prevent people from using BSD (or other)
> make, because gmake is required to build FreeTDS.  I run NetBSD, and have
> both make and gmake installed.  To build FreeTDS, I commented out the
> guard code in configure, and everything works fine.  

> But that's not a good solution in general.  

> Can one of you autoconf gurus tell me how to make this general?  I spent
> about 30 minutes chasing one variable after another, before I punted and
> commented out the code.  Basically, there should be someway to tell
> configure that the "make" it should be checking for is named "gmake" I'm
> imagining:

>       ./configure --with-make=gmake 

> or somesuch.

> I doubt I'm the very first guy to bump into this, so I'm sure there's a
> general solution to those in the know.  

Does 'MAKE=gmake ./configure' not do the trick?

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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