gmake and trace mode

[Joshua Root]

On 2019-2-2 11:06 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2019, at 18:04, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-2-2 10:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> If the gmake port is installed, then ports that use make will fail in trace mode, unless the port declares a dependency on the gmake port.
>>
>> That doesn't appear to be true in the general case (I just tried a
>> couple ports that didn't fail). How do ports know to try gmake if it's
>> being hidden by trace mode?
> 
> I've encountered it myself with another port. Maybe it's only cmake-using ports.

Yes, that seems to be it. Still not sure how cmake is deciding to use
gmake when it should appear not to exist, but we should convince it to
use the ${build.cmd} specified by base instead.

- Josh