From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19290 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2008 21:35:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 19221 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jun 2008 21:35:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:35:00 +0000 Received: from [68.108.140.244] (helo=macbook-2.local) by elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KBcdm-0006PF-Ci; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:34:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4862BA01.4050807@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:35:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey Subject: Re: Automatic dependency tracking References: <200806152203.14626.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20080616012617.GA8944@caradoc.them.org> <20080625182858.GA25575@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080625182858.GA25575@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da94012e3b0e2d77a65e64e859e8bda518165350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00260.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Option two: we could require GNU make. GCC has done this for years, > but binutils does not; it may be premature. > I think requiring GNU make is pretty safe at this point; it's preinstalled on most (all?) modern systems, we've scrubbed out a lot of ancient hosts, and if people really want to build on something old, getting GNU make is going to be among the easier of their tasks. Stan