Wine build system tech info

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:

> > As part of a private investigation I noticed that both
> > WINE and LINUX kernel
> > build systems have a mkdep utility which generates in
> > clude file
> > dependencies. What I am looking for is to understand
> > the reasons behind this
> > decision for the two very popular projects instead the
> > recipe
> > suggested by GNU make documentation.
>
> For us because we do not wish to depend on GNU Make.

   Note that we depend on GNU make anyway. In particualr there are some
issues on FreeBSD if you try to compile with the default make. If not in
the regular case, at least in the 'out-of-tree' case:

   ../src/configure
   make

   This fails. If I use gmake instead then it works.
   But maybe it's more an incompatibility with FreeBSD's default make
than a dependency on the GNU make.


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