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Re: GCC 3.0.2 and BSD Make

To: perry at wasabisystems dot com
Subject: Re: GCC 3.0.2 and BSD Make
From: cgd at broadcom dot com
Date: 02 Nov 2001 10:22:54 -0800
cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <11450000.1004118050@gandalf.codesourcery.com><200111012335.fA1NZ0C06537@quatramaran.ens.fr><20011102100319.D31636@codesourcery.com><87hesd82kk.fsf@snark.piermont.com><mailpost.1004724743.21259@postal.sibyte.com>

perry@wasabisystems.com ("Perry E. Metzger") writes:
> It would be very, very bad for those of us using BSD systems. We have
> to rebuild make a lot, and we cannot use GNU make for a wide variety
> of reasons.

No, you _will_ not.  There's a difference.

> I would never suggest that BSD make features be used in the gcc
> makefiles even though they're demonstrably nicer [ ... ]

Suffice it to say that that is _your_ opinion, and not the opinion of
every developer our there, or even every BSD developer out there.

(I for one would probably be happier if _NetBSD_ switched to GNU make.
8-)

cgd

References:
- Re: GCC 3.0.2 and BSD Make
  - From: Marc Espie
- Re: GCC 3.0.2 and BSD Make
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: GCC 3.0.2 and BSD Make
  - From: Perry E. Metzger

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