From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16605 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2015 18:43:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16596 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2015 18:43:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:43:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3624928F8A; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id z60Bl0NekH2l; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC03928F5C; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:43:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69FDD46993; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:43:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Doug Evans Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior , Pedro Alves , Simon Marchi , gdb-patches , Yao Qi Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove symlinks created in argv0-symlink.exp and general cleanup Message-ID: <20150812184307.GF22245@adacore.com> References: <1438287227-11303-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <55BF7962.3060106@redhat.com> <55BF85BC.8040102@ericsson.com> <55BF9811.50202@redhat.com> <20150804172110.GI4777@adacore.com> <55CB123F.70603@redhat.com> <87r3n85ukx.fsf@redhat.com> <20150812172225.GE22245@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 > 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