Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Toon Moene]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> Will there be sound recordings (ogg or mp3) made available of the
> discussions leading to specific policy decisions (e.g., to mandate GNU
> make), together with transcripts of at least the actual decisions?

Duh !  I hope no-one gets from the messages about this subject that some 
sort of decision was made at the GCC Summit.

We were just discussing options.  One of them I offered was that GNU 
make is more portable than makefiles themselves.  I said that because I 
have first-hand experience using make and GNU make on such varied 
platforms like Cray (both T3{D|E} and "classic"), Fujitsu VPP700/5000, 
NEC SX{4|5|6} - platforms most GNU "volunteers" do not have access to.

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