SUN make and gcc 3.0: committed changes to branch

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:32:47 -0400
> From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>

> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:33:54AM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > libstdc++-v3:
> > 	* configure.in (use of GLIBCPP_CHECK_GNU_MAKE): Don't fail if GNU
> > 	make isn't found.
> 
> I thought that this was going to be changed to add Sun make to the list of
> "known good make's" instead.

The verdict was to just not fail.  See
<URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg02007.html >.

>  There's not much point in checking for GNU
> make if we don't use the resulting information.

Right, though supposedly one might want to use that information
for maintainer-mode-like constructs, only emitted for GNU make;
usable for developers.  See
<URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-05/msg01459.html >
where I briefly noted that @ifGNUmake@ isn't used.

>  (Side question: do we
> still require GNU make in the first place?)

If you mean that question as it stands in no particular context,
then it was never an official requirement, now even less. :-)
See discussion nearby URL above.

brgds, H-P