Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Zack Weinberg]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

>> Another issue that we found with the GNAT front end, is that with
>> the extra GNU make features one doesn't need to rely as much on shell
>> capabilities.
>
> You mean GNU make functions?  I'd much rather not start depending on
> them.  I can see sometimes there may be benefits to doing so, but it
> pretty much makes us entirely dependent on GNU make.  I could live
> with that if the benefits are clearly worth it, but I don't want us to
> use GNU make features just because we can.

This is pure speculation, but I'm pretty sure most of mklibgcc would
become unnecessary if we could use GNU make's pattern rules.

zw