From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80760 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2016 10:33:41 -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 80729 invoked by uid 89); 18 Nov 2016 10:33:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:819, policy X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients 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; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:33:39 +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 0F2B57AEB4; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.6.181] (vpn1-6-181.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.6.181]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uAIAXaix028964 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:33:37 -0500 Subject: Re: Require GNU make to build binutils-gdb To: Simon Marchi , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <144f4f68acf24fc1084b585700c65b63@polymtl.ca> From: Nick Clifton Message-ID: <80053c28-1a47-8f80-04fb-7bdf76115077@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:33:00 -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: <144f4f68acf24fc1084b585700c65b63@polymtl.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00506.txt.bz2 Hi Simon, > In gdb/, we are now making use of GNU make-specific features > (in particular, pattern rules), so we now require building > with GNU make. > For simplicity and consistency, we were wondering if we should > adopt the same policy for the whole binutils-gdb tree. I think that this is a good idea, although maybe it would be helpful to take a two stage approach: for one release (of binutils) issue an error message if a non-GNU make is used, but allow a configure option to override this. (In the same way that obsolete targets are currently handled). Then for the release after that make GNU make a hard requirement. That way we give users a chance to give us feedback if they are using a non-GNU make and they do not have the option of changing. Cheers Nick