Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver

Andreas Tobler
2011-02-19T12:35:22Z

On 19.02.11 13:14, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> I think it would be a good idea to require GNU make, but I think that is
>> something that needs general agreement.
>
> Since GCC already requires GNU Make, I don't think that it would
> be a problem for us to require GNU Make as well. IIRC, the reason
> for not requiring GNU Make was for FreeBSD where it's not installed
> by default? It doesn't seem like a strong argument to limit ourselves,
> especially considering the fact that they should already know how to
> handle this dependency because of GCC.

My 2Rp, here on my FreeBSD (amd64 to sparc64) targets I have to use
gmake aka. GNU make 3.81 since a longer time. Also for the ports
collection we have to use GNU make for both, gcc and gdb at least.

Gruss,
Andreas