Re: [PATCH 2/4] Remove code that checks for GNU/non-GNU make

Pedro Alves
2016-11-16T17:12:55Z

On 11/16/2016 04:39 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 16 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Since GDB is built by first running Make in sibling directories, which
>> don't require a GNU Make yet, what does this mean in case the user
>> runs a non-GNU Make? Will they have strange errors half way through
>> the build? Should we detect this early on and bail out?
>
> The toplevel makefile already has such a check, only enabled for gcc for
> now.

Might be worth it to ask the binutils@ folks if they're OK
with requiring GNU make, and just making that unconditional.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves