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-rw-r--r--m4/depout.m44
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/m4/depout.m4 b/m4/depout.m4
index b3cadcb90..d612876f1 100644
--- a/m4/depout.m4
+++ b/m4/depout.m4
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS],
done
if test $am_rc -ne 0; then
AC_MSG_FAILURE([Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
- for automatic dependency tracking. Try re-running configure with the
+ for automatic dependency tracking. If GNU make was not used, consider
+ re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is
+ necessary). You can also try re-running configure with the
'--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).])
fi