Re: The GIMP! By gum, I forgot all about it!

[Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>]

>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

>> Where things break is in the assumption that you will be using gcc
>> for compiling. SCO doesn't give you a convenient way to generate
>> dependencies (no -MD).

Maciej> Well, that is more an automake problem than a Guile problem
Maciej> (the relevant makefile rules are generated automatically). Was
Maciej> this from the CVS version, or a version from an actual
Maciej> distribution? I thought `make dist' was supposed to turn off
Maciej> the dependency-tracking rules...

`make dist' does do this.

The "developer" Makefiles generated by automake require GNU make and
gcc.  The Makefiles generated at `make dist' time will in theory (and,
generally, practice) work with any version of make and any C compiler.
(This presumes that the Makefile.am author hasn't written unportable
code.  However, that seems unlikely in this case.)

If you want to check a version out using cvs and build with a
different make or compiler, you can tell automake to turn off the
dependency tracking feature.  This is documented in the manual.

Tom