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Re: SUN make and gcc 3.0: committed changes to branch
- To: pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com
- Subject: Re: SUN make and gcc 3.0: committed changes to branch
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:13:52 +0200
- CC: hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:32:47 -0400
> From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:33:54AM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > libstdc++-v3:
> > * configure.in (use of GLIBCPP_CHECK_GNU_MAKE): Don't fail if GNU
> > make isn't found.
>
> I thought that this was going to be changed to add Sun make to the list of
> "known good make's" instead.
The verdict was to just not fail. See
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg02007.html>.
> There's not much point in checking for GNU
> make if we don't use the resulting information.
Right, though supposedly one might want to use that information
for maintainer-mode-like constructs, only emitted for GNU make;
usable for developers. See
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg01459.html>
where I briefly noted that @ifGNUmake@ isn't used.
> (Side question: do we
> still require GNU make in the first place?)
If you mean that question as it stands in no particular context,
then it was never an official requirement, now even less. :-)
See discussion nearby URL above.
brgds, H-P