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


On 11/16/2016 04:39 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 16 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> The toplevel makefile already has such a check, only enabled for gcc for
> now.

Might be worth it to ask the binutils@ folks if they're OK
with requiring GNU make, and just making that unconditional.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


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