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

Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-13T16:25:59Z

> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:26:16 -0500
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> 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. I don't know about other
> OSes on which people build GDB on (Windows, OS X, Solaris?). If GNU
> make is readily available on these, perhaps we can consider making it a
> requirement?

The MS-Windows builds of GDB use GNU Make.