Re: PATCH: Use GNU Makeisms to simplify libgcc build

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Aug 28, 2003, law@redhat.com wrote:

> 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.

I still want to know what caused the problem in this case.  I'd still
rather pass things explicitly, rather than force GNU make down
everybody's throat.  If we eventually find out that we do have a good
reason to really require GNU make, fine.  This is not it.
Unfortunately I wasn't invited to participate in the discussion of why
GCC should or should not require GNU make, so I don't know what the
arguments were, but the one reason I heard the most since the decision
was reached was the `include' feature, which makes me thing the SC may
not have been misguided about the available options.

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