[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 09/12] configure.ac: Use autoconf macro for GNU make.

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/09/14 20:20, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> Is there any particular reason for this patch ? Afaics the macro sets
>>> ifGNUmake which we are not really using.
>>
>> I'd prefer to use things from the autoconf archive rather than just
>> checking for program names. They typically do some extra checking,
>> e.g., this actually checks whether the program is GNU make according
>> to its --version, rather than just by its name.
>>
> I'm hoping to have mesa non gnumake dependant for the next release. If
> you think the extra version check is worth it go for it. I'll just rip
> it out at some later stage :)

I'm not sure you're going to be able to do that.

install-lib-links.mk for instance uses join/addsuffix/dir/notdir which
as far as I know are only in GNU make. Maybe we can use ifGNUmake to
control that.