On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On , October 6, 2002 at 21:43:47 (-0000), wiz@netbsd.org wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: pkg/18556
> >
> > Synopsis: new pkgsrc mk/auto{conf,make}.mk should do more by default
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> 
> You're a little quick off the mark here.  If you don't agree with these
> things I'd much more appreciate 'feedback' be set and a discussion
> opened in tech-pkg.  I wouldn't have made this a PR if I didn't think it
> was important.  I'll repost this reply to tech-pkg if you feel that's
> appropriate.
> 
> > State-Changed-By: wiz
> > State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 6 14:40:16 PDT 2002
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > I disagree about USE_GMAKE -- it's perfectly possible to make the
> > output of automake parsable by BSD make.
> 
> Nope, not true, and especially not true with modern automake (1.6 and
> newer).  The problems are subtle and don't always show up in every build
> using automake, but they are common enough to warrant always using
> gmake.

I'd probably have to agree with Greg's comments here.  I've seen problems
with automake generated makefiles which fail in strange and subtle ways
with BSD make.  Many do work ok, but others don't.

-Dan