Re: PATCH: Use GNU Makeisms to simplify libgcc build

[law at redhat dot com]

In message <orbru9z7ke.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>, Alexandre Oliva wri
tes:
 >On Aug 26, 2003, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
 >
 >> I've attached a ceremonial first patch using GNU make features.
 >
 >I'm strongly inclined to request the reversal of this patch.  It's an
 >absolutely gratuitous reason to require GNU make.  We have most of the
 >infrastructure in place to not need GNU make's export feature, so I'd
 >much rather have a fix for the case in which {AR,RANLIB,NM}_FOR_TARGET
 >were passed down incorrectly.  I'm told the SC has approved the
 >requirement of GNU make, but I'm not happy with our doing so without a
 >very good reason, and this is definitely not it.
Alex -- I have to disagree with you on this.

The way we've had to manage overrides in the past has been horribly
fragile -- it was one of the things which prompted me to ask folks
not muck with the build system without actually making radical changes
to fix it a few years ago (not that my request did any good then).

Assuming gnu-make allows us to replace some of those rather fragile bits
with bits that make sense and are a hell of a lot easier to understand.


Jeff