From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27562 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2007 03:46:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27553 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2007 03:46:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:46:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 9442 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2007 03:46:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.21?) (brooks@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 7 Nov 2007 03:46:35 -0000 Message-ID: <47313519.7000508@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:46:00 -0000 From: Brooks Moses User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: [patch] Document that GDB does not assume GNU make. Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010203060605010402080004" 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 X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010203060605010402080004 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 631 As Daniel Jacobowitz pointed out to me with regards to my recent makefile patch, GDB (unlike GCC) does not assume that it is being built with GNU make. The current documentation does not comment on this point one way or the other, and so I propose the attached patch to make this clear. Tested with "make pdf". Ok to commit? - Brooks --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007-11-06 Brooks Moses * doc/gdb.texinfo (Requirements): Document that GDB should build with any POSIX-compliant make. --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------010203060605010402080004 Content-Type: text/plain; name="2007-11-06_doc_make.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="2007-11-06_doc_make.diff" Content-length: 620 Index: gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.441 diff -U3 -r1.441 gdb.texinfo --- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 30 Oct 2007 19:35:35 -0000 1.441 +++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 7 Nov 2007 03:09:19 -0000 @@ -22185,6 +22185,10 @@ @value{GDBN} is written in ISO C90. It should be buildable with any working C90 compiler, e.g.@: GCC. +@item make +The @value{GDBN} makefiles are compatible with any @sc{posix}-compliant +implementation of make. + @end table @heading Tools/Packages Optional for Building @value{GDBN} --------------010203060605010402080004--