Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 31, 2003, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:

>> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> 
>> IMO, letting GNU make features sneak in will eventually get us to a
>> terribly complex build machinery, like that of glibc.  I can't say
>> that I'm looking forward to maintaining something like that :-)

> Really?  You think our current mix of 4 incompatible automakes, old
> autoconf version and complex Makefile design would be made worse (more
> complex) by standardizing on GNU make?

Nope.  I think using only portable make features is not a significant
obstacle.  The use of different versions of automake has absolutely
nothing to do with standardizing on any particular version of make.
All versions of automake we use generate portable make code.

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