Re: [Mesa3d-users] configure problem (was Missing GLX extensions)

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Dirk Reiners wrote:
> 
> On Mar 15, 10:40am, Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't.  And I get the same error whether I'm using csh or ksh.
> >
> > -Brian
> >-- End of excerpt from Brian Paul
> 
> Doh! Trying it myself I found the problem. You have to use gmake, standard
> SGI make doesn't work.
> 
> Using that the Makefile error goes away, but you still can't compile on
> Irix. The compiler flag to update dependencies on Irix is '-MDupdate', not
> '-MD'. I don't know anything about autoconf, so I don't know how to change
> the configure parts, but just replacing -MD with -MDupdate in all
> Makefile.in files makes it work. I just don't know if that also works on
> Linux, can somebody try that? If not, can somebody who knows a little more
> about autoconf/configure add that as a platform-dependent option?


I thought that (in the past at least) autoconf was supposed to produce
Makefiles that worked with non-gmake versions of make.  Is gnu make required
nowadays?

Is there a better fix to the -MDupdate problem than to manually edit the
makefiles that configure generates?

-Brian

PS: Sven, I'm copying you in case you can help.