Re: egcs 1.1b for solaris on intel

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199810072202.PAA17315@atrus.synopsys.com>you write:
  > >   > Hi, all
  > >   > try to install egcs1.1b on a intel machine running on solaris 2.7.
  > >   > During the compilation I got these error message:
  > 
  > > Use gnu-make.
  > 
  > Some of the BSD people are flaming us for requiring GNU make (formerly
  > it was only needed on platforms with particularly broken makes, now
  > it seems to be a requirement everywhere.  That is, gcc 2.7.x built OK
  > with BSD's make while egcs does not, if I understand the issue correctly).
  > 
  > Since they are fond of the "make world" paridigm where everything on the
  > system is built from source all at once, it appears that egcs doesn't fit
  > into that structure (since they would be using their own make, which they
  > claim is Posix-compliant).
  > 
  > What specific features of GNU make are we requiring?  Unfortunately I
  > haven't seen the BSD failures myself, so it's not clear to me.
I believe gnu-make specific stuff is used inside the texinfo dir (I have no
idea how/why).  We may also be using gnu-make specific stuff in one or more
of the runtime library directories, I'm not sure.



jeff