Re: lynx-dev make problem

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "TED" == T E Dickey <address@hidden> writes:

>>  Which version of make is recommended for building lynx?  I have
>> GNU Make v3.75 for OS/2 installed and when I run configure I get:

TED> I have 3.74, from the hobbes cdrom.  That worked w/o having to compile my 
own.
  
>> loading cache ./config.cache 
>> checking host system type... i386-pc-os2 
>> checking for gcc... gcc 
>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O -Zexe -Zcrtdll) 
>> works... yes 
>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O -Zexe -Zcrtdll) is a 
>> cross-compiler... no 
>> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes 
>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes 
>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc.exe -E 
>> checking for ranlib... : 
>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes 
>> checking for style of include in makefiles...  
>> configure: error: Your make program does not support includes 

>> Anyone know what is going wrong here? 

TED> There's a couple of different syntax for include-statements in
TED> makefiles.  I'm using that to support the
TED> WWW/Library/Implementation directory, rather than rewrite the
TED> makefile.  (That was because when I wrote that part of the
TED> configure script, we were still maintaining the non-configure
TED> build in parallel).

I've had this problem on OS/2 before.  It's not a real error; it has
to do somehow with using some stale configure.* files.  Run 'sh -c
autoconf --clean' and 'sh -c autoconf' to clean everything up and
build a fresh configure.cmd.  I don't know why this should happen, but
it seems to be a not uncommon error with autoconf-based stuff on OS/2.

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