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+# Not a shell script, but something intended to be sourced from shell scripts
+find_gnumake() {
+ # the GNU dialect of "make" -- easier to find or port it than to
+ # try to figure out how to port to the local dialect...
+ if [ "$GNUMAKE" != "" ] ; then
+ # The user is evidently trying to tell us something.
+ GNUMAKE="$GNUMAKE"
+ elif [ -x "`which gmake`" ] ; then
+ # "gmake" is the preferred name in *BSD.
+ GNUMAKE=gmake
+ elif [ "GNU Make" = "`make -v | head -n 1 | cut -b 0-8`" ]; then
+ GNUMAKE=make
+ else
+ echo "GNU Make not found. Try setting the environment variable GNUMAKE."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ export GNUMAKE
+ echo "//GNUMAKE=\"$GNUMAKE\""
+}