From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com>,
"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Require GNU make?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53872DEC.1050209@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53870721.3080402@redhat.com>
On 29/05/14 11:08, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 03:15 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 03:15:51PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>> Ping. I'd rather *not* tie this fix to moving to require GNU
>>> make, please.
>>
>> OK then, since no one else has supported moving to GNU make.
>
> (not speaking for tying the fix, but,)
>
> Seems no one objected either. Changed subject to catch attention.
>
> I was kind of hoping binutils would start requiring it, so
> we could use it as excuse for GDB to require it as well. :-)
>
Not directly relevant, but I put a feature into the newlib build earlier
this year that relied on a GNU make extension. There were no objections
at the time I did that.
My feelings are that if there are good technical reasons to require GNU
Make (ie no way to avoid the requirement without seriously convoluted
changes), we should go ahead and do it.
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-29 12:54 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 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2014-05-29 13:09 ` Require GNU make? 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
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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