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Re: egcs 1.1b for solaris on intel
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs 1.1b for solaris on intel
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 11:27:37 -0400
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
>>>>> Joe Buck writes:
Joe> Since they are fond of the "make world" paridigm where everything on the
Joe> system is built from source all at once, it appears that egcs doesn't fit
Joe> into that structure (since they would be using their own make, which they
Joe> claim is Posix-compliant).
Joe> What specific features of GNU make are we requiring? Unfortunately I
Joe> haven't seen the BSD failures myself, so it's not clear to me.
EGCS seems to fail when building with AIX 4.3 Make as well, from
what I have heard. AIX Make also is POSIX compliant. I think it is a bad
idea to require GNU Make for GCC just the same as we stand on our heads to
allow GCC to be built with vendor compilers.
David