Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile improvements and cleanups

Pedro Alves
2016-11-15T17:51:51Z

On 11/15/2016 05:14 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2016-11-15 11:56, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 11/13/2016 03:26 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>> As an honest follow-up question: do we need to stay compatible with
>>> other makes than GNU make? From what I can see, Open/Net/FreeBSD all
>>> use gmake to build their port of GDB already.
>>
>> You mean their ports scripts? Can you provide some url for reference?
>
> Sure:
>
> FreeBSD has "USES = gmake"
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/gdb/Makefile?view=co
>
> OpenBSD has "USE_GMAKE = Yes"
>
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/devel/gdb/Makefile?rev=1.45&content-type=text/plain
>
>
> NetBSD has "USE_TOOLS += gmake"
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/gdb/Makefile

Great, many thanks. That really makes it a non-issue to
require GNU make then, IMO.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves