svn commit: samba r12896 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/build/smb_build: .

[James Peach]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 09:06 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote: 
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> James Peach schrieb:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:22 +0000, metze at samba.org wrote:
> >> Author: metze
> >> Date: 2006-01-13 08:22:21 +0000 (Fri, 13 Jan 2006)
> >> New Revision: 12896
> >>
> >> WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=12896
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> >> Log:
> >> IRIX make will fallback to gmake with this,
> > 
> > Assuming GNU make is installed ...
> > 
> >> as normal IRIX make doesn't support shell commands or functions
> >> in $(FOO) variables
> > 
> > Does this mean that GNU make is now required for building Samba 4? If
> > so, we should check for and enforce this in configure ...
> 
> yep, currently it's required on IRIX...
> is that ok?

Yep, that's fine by me.

> I may add a configure check for this...

There is a CHECK_GNU_MAKE macro in the autoconf macros archive which
does most of the job. It would be nice to augment it so that users could
say --with-gnu-make=/full/path/to/gmake.

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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org