notes from gcc summit maintenance BOF

[Nathan Sidwell]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:10:58PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
>>>    WHAT TO DO WITH REQUIRED VERSION of make
>>>      - specific one, GNU make 3.79.1
>>
>>This is a chicken and egg problem, if GNU make requires GCC to build.
> 
> 
> It currently doesn't.  If it does in the future, well, that's what
> precompiled binaries are for.  People bootstrapping from bare iron can
> toggle it in from the front panel.
Make needs two options,
   --script   generate a script of the commands that are run
   --outofdate assume everything is outof date
IIRC I have misspelt existing options :)

nathan
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