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Subject: Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver
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> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:14:48 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > 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.

Sorry, but I'm really strongly opposed to making GNU make a
requirement.  The fact that GCC requires it is bad enough.  It forced
several BSD's to reengineer the GCC build system completely.  Please
don't make us do the same thing for GDB!