From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125527 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2016 16:25:59 -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 125515 invoked by uid 89); 13 Nov 2016 16:25:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:gdb-pat, sk:gdbpat, U*gdb-patches, gdbpatchessourcewareorg X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:25:48 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5xbD-0005Sn-Aw for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:25:46 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5xbD-0005Sj-68; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:25:43 -0500 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4919 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c5xbC-00083J-EX; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:25:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:25:00 -0000 Message-Id: <837f87cpnz.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Simon Marchi CC: schwab@linux-m68k.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <968dffb716723c39a8a3cf0ab2d5bfca@polymtl.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:26:16 -0500) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile improvements and cleanups Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20161113034625.8237-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> <968dffb716723c39a8a3cf0ab2d5bfca@polymtl.ca> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00332.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:26:16 -0500 > From: Simon Marchi > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > 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. I don't know about other > OSes on which people build GDB on (Windows, OS X, Solaris?). If GNU > make is readily available on these, perhaps we can consider making it a > requirement? The MS-Windows builds of GDB use GNU Make.