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From: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
Subject: Re: Should we require GNU make in binutils?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:12:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS7PR12MB5765CFE8051E7285001CA6A4CBE3A@DS7PR12MB5765.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZOgesf+pTitJDdSN@squeak.grove.modra.org>

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:23 PM Alan Modra via Binutils
<binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> I see the toplevel Makefile.in makes use of $(filter-out ..) and other
> GNU Make extensions, and requires GNU Make 3.80 or later when building
> gcc.  gdb also uses GNU make extensions.  It seems silly to me that
> binutils is still trying to avoid GNU make extensions.
>
> We could start with the following (originally from Hans-Peter) which
> avoids a whole lot of entering/leaving messages when building with
> --enable-targets=all.  What do people think?

This is a good idea!

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-25  3:23 Alan Modra
2023-08-25  5:12 ` Fangrui Song [this message]
2023-08-25  8:15 ` Jan Beulich
2023-08-25  9:26   ` Alan Modra
2023-08-25  8:37 ` Jose E. Marchesi

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