From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 48138 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2016 17:51:51 -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 48101 invoked by uid 89); 15 Nov 2016 17:51:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:svnweb., svnweb.freebsd.org, UD:freebsd.org, UD:svnweb.freebsd.org X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:51:41 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B20F761E5F; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn03.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.3]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uAFHpbcS002017; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:51:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile improvements and cleanups To: Simon Marchi References: <20161113034625.8237-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> <968dffb716723c39a8a3cf0ab2d5bfca@polymtl.ca> <64d5f928-7710-d9a8-3e71-c87d74ef3414@redhat.com> <336d640aa718087f12f82e9cfa95bb1b@polymtl.ca> Cc: Andreas Schwab , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, John Baldwin From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <20e9d492-9d34-06a7-aa9d-74add430b248@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:51:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <336d640aa718087f12f82e9cfa95bb1b@polymtl.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 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