make versionitis? (OpenBSD) QUESTION TO MAINTAINERS IMBEDD ED

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned, I'd really like this feature out. gcc is not
> supposed to require gnu-make to build (chicken and egg problem, and there
> is still a significant proportion of makes out there that don't recognize
> embedded variables.

A patch to remove the feature is trivial and affects only the volume
of warnings produced in a normal build.

-GCC_WARN_CFLAGS = $(LOOSE_WARN) $($(@D)-warn)
+GCC_WARN_CFLAGS = $(LOOSE_WARN) $(STRICT_WARN)

Other things can then be simplified, but that's all that's required.

I didn't originally want to put this in.  If you are prepared to take
all the flak that will be fired by the maintainers of the various
non-C front ends, who do not wish to contort their code to the
requirements of archaic K+R compilers, please go right ahead and take
it out.

zw