c:make does not allow a different make to be called

[asmodai@…]

c:make is now hardwired to 'make', but a lot of different/specialised makes are installed under different names, e.g.:

• gmake for GNU make
• bmake for NetBSD's make
• imake for XFree86/X.org's make
• qmake for Trolltech's make.

[cmlenz]

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[cmlenz]

This could be addressed using Slave Configuration: you would add a section like this:

[make]
path = /usr/bin/gmake

That config value would then be used by the <c:make> command to execute the correct make executable.

Would that work?

[cmlenz]

Patch that implements the above suggestion (should work both against 0.5 and current trunk)

[cmlenz]

Patch above applied in [306].

However, this does not address the issue where a specific variant of make is required for a build.

[matu]

Could you add nmake also?

[anonymous]

Replying to asmodai@in-nomine.org:

• qmake for Trolltech's make.

Note that qmake is more an autoconf than it is a make, so qmake should rather be supported in the autoconf recipe (see #59).

[osimons]

Replying to cmlenz:

Patch above applied in [306].

However, this does not address the issue where a specific variant of make is required for a build.

I've added all configuration information to default docs (see wiki:Documentation/configure.html), and by using a [make] section with slave config matching against target properties that should be sufficient? I can't see why not?

I'm closing this as 'fixed'.