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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>,"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:06:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
References: <200305291727.NAA06347@caip.rutgers.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305291835450.23254@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <20030529112950.A14006@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck wrote:-

> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:54:00PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > GNU make version 3.79.1 (later versions okay for building only.)
> > > 
> > > Necessary when running "make" to build the GCC package.
> > 
> > We've decided to desupport non-GNU make generally (not just for GNAT and
> > libjava)?
> 
> We've tried to fix problems with the BSD makes, but new ones seem to keep
> popping up.  I think that working with the BSD makes should be a goal,
> but we have to document reality.

Kaveh is documenting what was agreed at the summit - we specify GNU
make only, and from now on we feel free to use all its extensions so as
to simplify our Makefile maintenance.  Yeah!

Neil.

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