Commit e508e09d3837c029daf8cd86d7f8925df7872389
2012-01-28T10:05:18
build: require GNU make in order to run the maintainer checks This is not a real regression in portability, since most maintainer check rules already assumed GNU grep, and were anyway only meant to run on the developers' systems (where we can safely assume the presence of GNU make). This change will allow us to take advantage, in future changes, of more GNU make features, thus simplifying or optimizing some of our maintainer rules. * GNUmakefile: New, including 'Makefile' and 'syntax-checks.mk'. * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Link it in the builddir. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute 'GNUmakefile' and 'syntax-checks.mk'. Move all syntax-check rules and auxiliary variables into ... * syntax-checks.mk: ... this new file, with some adjustments.