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1# ===========================================================================
2# http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_check_gnu_make.html
3# ===========================================================================
4#
5# SYNOPSIS
6#
7# AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE()
8#
9# DESCRIPTION
10#
11# This macro searches for a GNU version of make. If a match is found:
12#
13# * The makefile variable `ifGNUmake' is set to the empty string, otherwise
14# it is set to "#". This is useful for including a special features in a
15# Makefile, which cannot be handled by other versions of make.
16# * The variable `_cv_gnu_make_command` is set to the command to invoke
17# GNU make if it exists, the empty string otherwise.
18# * The variable `ax_cv_gnu_make_command` is set to the command to invoke
19# GNU make by copying `_cv_gnu_make_command`, otherwise it is unset.
20# * If GNU Make is found, its version is extracted from the output of
21# `make --version` as the last field of a record of space-separated
22# columns and saved into the variable `ax_check_gnu_make_version`.
23#
24# Here is an example of its use:
25#
26# Makefile.in might contain:
27#
28# # A failsafe way of putting a dependency rule into a makefile
29# $(DEPEND):
30# $(CC) -MM $(srcdir)/*.c > $(DEPEND)
31#
32# @ifGNUmake@ ifeq ($(DEPEND),$(wildcard $(DEPEND)))
33# @ifGNUmake@ include $(DEPEND)
34# @ifGNUmake@ endif
35#
36# Then configure.in would normally contain:
37#
38# AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE()
39# AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
40#
41# Then perhaps to cause gnu make to override any other make, we could do
42# something like this (note that GNU make always looks for GNUmakefile
43# first):
44#
45# if ! test x$_cv_gnu_make_command = x ; then
46# mv Makefile GNUmakefile
47# echo .DEFAULT: > Makefile ;
48# echo \ $_cv_gnu_make_command \$@ >> Makefile;
49# fi
50#
51# Then, if any (well almost any) other make is called, and GNU make also
52# exists, then the other make wraps the GNU make.
53#
54# LICENSE
55#
56# Copyright (c) 2008 John Darrington <j.darrington@elvis.murdoch.edu.au>
57# Copyright (c) 2015 Enrico M. Crisostomo <enrico.m.crisostomo@gmail.com>
58#
59# Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
60# permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice
61# and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without any
62# warranty.
63
64#serial 8
65
66AC_DEFUN([AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE],dnl
67 [AC_PROG_AWK
68 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for GNU make],[_cv_gnu_make_command],[dnl
69 _cv_gnu_make_command="" ;
70dnl Search all the common names for GNU make
71 for a in "$MAKE" make gmake gnumake ; do
72 if test -z "$a" ; then continue ; fi ;
73 if "$a" --version 2> /dev/null | grep GNU 2>&1 > /dev/null ; then
74 _cv_gnu_make_command=$a ;
75 AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE_HEADLINE=$("$a" --version 2> /dev/null | grep "GNU Make")
76 ax_check_gnu_make_version=$(echo ${AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE_HEADLINE} | ${AWK} -F " " '{ print $(NF); }')
77 break ;
78 fi
79 done ;])
80dnl If there was a GNU version, then set @ifGNUmake@ to the empty string, '#' otherwise
81 AS_VAR_IF([_cv_gnu_make_command], [""], [AS_VAR_SET([ifGNUmake], ["#"])], [AS_VAR_SET([ifGNUmake], [""])])
82 AS_VAR_IF([_cv_gnu_make_command], [""], [AS_UNSET(ax_cv_gnu_make_command)], [AS_VAR_SET([ax_cv_gnu_make_command], [${_cv_gnu_make_command}])])
83 AC_SUBST([ifGNUmake])
84])