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Re: 2.1.95: configure doesn't search $PATH to find make
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Andreas Jaeger |
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Re: 2.1.95: configure doesn't search $PATH to find make |
Date: |
23 Oct 2000 08:47:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) |
>>>>> Patrick Smith writes:
> With make 3.77 in /usr/bin/make and make 3.79 in another directory,
> which appears earlier in my $PATH, if I type
> /PATH-TO_SOURCE/configure ...
> then configure finds make 3.77 and refuses to proceed.
Configure your system correctly - we search for:
gnumake, gmake and then make in the path (see configure for details).
> If I type (in bash)
> MAKE=`type -path make` /PATH-TO_SOURCE/configure ...
> then configure finds make 3.79 and is content.
> As make will normally be invoked through the user's $PATH by the user
> typing 'make' at a shell prompt, shouldn't configure also locate make in
> this fashion?
It does, I don't understand why it doesn't work for you.
> By the way, is anything up with www-gnats.gnu.org:8080? Over the last
> couple of weeks, I've tried to follow the links from
> www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html many times and always got
> 'connection refused'.
www-gnats is broken currently, the machine is moving. :-(
Andreas
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