Re: [PATCH] Remove symlinks created in argv0-symlink.exp and general cleanup

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> I suspect, though I haven't tried, if we remove the
> check-parallel/check-single test, it would be straightforward to
> remove the GNU make requirement and just move the details to a wrapper
> script.

Dependency tracking also requires GNU/Make; would you be able to
take care of that through the wrapper?

> Always invoking runtest by a wrapper script has other benefits.
> 
> I'm not advocating for this, I only ever use GNU make.
> But if the topic comes up, it's not clear to me GNU make
> is an absolute requirement.

It would be nice to list the additional benefits and decide whether
we want to go that route or not, ideally more-or-less independently
of whether we want to require GNU/Make or not.

The reason why I am advocating in favor of requiring GNU/Make is that
we are regularly hindered or doing extra work trying to support non-
GNU/Make, while on the other hand, the community affected by this
proposal only need to update their build procedures to put GNU/Make
on their PATH. And since GCC already requires GNU/Make, I cannot
understand why it would be difficult to do so.

-- 
Joel