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Re: Teach mklibgcc about C++'s additions


On Jun 22, 2000, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

>     GCC has required a POSIX-compliant make for a while.

> Are you sure?

Yup.  It's even in the FAQ :-)

> What do people do if they don't have one?

The FAQ recommendation is to build GNU make.

> Do we require GNU make to be buildable with any compiler and "make"?

In fact, GNU make will build even without a pre-existing `make'.
There's a shell script that duplicates its Makefile.

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