From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Should we require GNU make in binutils?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:56:09 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZOhzsSwb919v5+xf@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ebad4e3-78b2-dcdd-003c-68a585590e9c@suse.com>
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 25.08.2023 05:23, Alan Modra via Binutils 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.
>
> Aren't pattern rules a GNU extension as well? We're already using them
> in e.g. bfd/Makefile.
Yes, came in with commit bd32be01c997, Jan 2022. OK, I'll commit the
ld change too.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-25 9:26 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
2023-08-25 8:15 ` Jan Beulich
2023-08-25 9:26 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2023-08-25 8:37 ` Jose E. Marchesi
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