From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: "ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Require GNU make?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 22:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140529222339.GA4265@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5387B1FB.4030209@redhat.com>
> Not really. It just means that before building binutils, you need
> to build GNU make. That is, in effect, push the build system
> portability problem to a single and logical entry point, rather
> than have all GNU programs (that use make) need to care. GNU
> only needs to invent the wheel once.
[...]
> GNU make even builds with Microsoft's compilers. At least,
> there's README.W32.template in the sources saying that's supported,
> and I see "make_msvc_net2003.sln" and "make_msvc_net2003.vcproj" files.
[...]
> Nowadays you're more likely to start by cross compiling, but in any case,
> that is really a false problem. That someone would just have to
> port/build GNU make first with the proprietary compiler, _then_
> port binutils, then gcc, etc.
+1.
I am particularly sensitive to the argument that GNU projects
at large shouldn't have to suffer because we can't ask developers
(or build systems such as the *BSDs) to build GNU Make first and
use that instead.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-29 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 22:48 [RFA:] fix PR ld/16963, missing SEARCH_DIR for non-sysroot cross-builds Hans-Peter Nilsson
2014-05-20 9:21 ` Alan Modra
2014-05-20 11:23 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2014-05-20 12:36 ` Alan Modra
2014-05-20 16:20 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2014-05-22 8:02 ` Alan Modra
2014-05-28 13:16 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2014-05-28 14:15 ` Alan Modra
2014-05-29 10:08 ` Require GNU make? (was: Re: [RFA:] fix PR ld/16963, missing SEARCH_DIR for non-sysroot cross-builds) Pedro Alves
2014-05-29 12:54 ` Require GNU make? Richard Earnshaw
2014-05-29 13:09 ` Ralf Corsepius
2014-05-29 13:23 ` Richard Earnshaw
2014-05-29 16:09 ` ISHIKAWA,chiaki
2014-05-29 22:17 ` Pedro Alves
2014-05-29 22:23 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2014-05-29 15:32 ` Jeff Law
2014-06-04 18:33 ` Tom Tromey
2014-06-02 6:30 ` [RFA:] fix PR ld/16963, missing SEARCH_DIR for non-sysroot cross-builds Alan Modra
2014-06-02 17:28 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
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