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

Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-16T16:32:40Z

> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:06 -0500
>
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
>
> Since GNU make is now required to build GDB, we can remove everything
> that checks whether the current make implemention is the GNU one or
> not. I simply removed the @GMAKE_TRUE@ prefixes and removed the whole
> lines that were prefixed with @GMAKE_FALSE@.

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?