From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Require GNU make to build binutils-gdb
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85e5ade0f75ee3ced79946ec9462b7f6@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80053c28-1a47-8f80-04fb-7bdf76115077@redhat.com>
Hi Nick,
On 2016-11-18 05:33, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 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.
That seems fair. Would you add that check in the top-level Makefile or
in the binutils/ Makefile?
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-18 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-17 19:11 Simon Marchi
2016-11-17 20:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-11-17 20:33 ` Simon Marchi
2016-11-17 20:43 ` Paul Smith
2016-11-17 21:14 ` Simon Marchi
2016-11-17 20:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-18 10:33 ` Nick Clifton
2016-11-18 13:00 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2016-11-18 17:04 ` Nick Clifton
2016-11-19 3:04 ` Simon Marchi
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