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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

 > From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
 > 
 > IMO, letting GNU make features sneak in will eventually get us to a
 > terribly complex build machinery, like that of glibc.  I can't say
 > that I'm looking forward to maintaining something like that :-)

Really?  You think our current mix of 4 incompatible automakes, old
autoconf version and complex Makefile design would be made worse (more
complex) by standardizing on GNU make?  Can you support that
statement with specifics?

		Thanks,
		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
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