Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Neil Booth]

Joe Buck wrote:-

> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:54:00PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > GNU make version 3.79.1 (later versions okay for building only.)
> > > 
> > > Necessary when running "make" to build the GCC package.
> > 
> > We've decided to desupport non-GNU make generally (not just for GNAT and
> > libjava)?
> 
> We've tried to fix problems with the BSD makes, but new ones seem to keep
> popping up.  I think that working with the BSD makes should be a goal,
> but we have to document reality.

Kaveh is documenting what was agreed at the summit - we specify GNU
make only, and from now on we feel free to use all its extensions so as
to simplify our Makefile maintenance.  Yeah!

Neil.