From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24676 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2011 12:35:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 24591 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Feb 2011 12:35:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.fgznet.ch (HELO smtp.fgznet.ch) (81.92.96.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:35:16 +0000 Received: from deuterium.andreas.nets (dhclient-91-190-8-131.flashcable.ch [91.190.8.131]) by smtp.fgznet.ch (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit_SMTPAUTH) with ESMTP id p1JCYcK9009319; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:34:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreast-list@fgznet.ch) Message-ID: <4D5FB8DE.3090600@fgznet.ch> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:20:00 -0000 From: Andreas Tobler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Tom Tromey , Yao Qi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver References: <4D30E23F.3080103@codesourcery.com> <4D34C9DE.3040603@codesourcery.com> <4D375F44.70504@codesourcery.com> <20110219121448.GA17297@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20110219121448.GA17297@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00511.txt.bz2 On 19.02.11 13:14, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I think it would be a good idea to require GNU make, but I think that is >> something that needs general agreement. > > Since GCC already requires GNU Make, I don't think that it would > be a problem for us to require GNU Make as well. IIRC, the reason > for not requiring GNU Make was for FreeBSD where it's not installed > by default? It doesn't seem like a strong argument to limit ourselves, > especially considering the fact that they should already know how to > handle this dependency because of GCC. My 2Rp, here on my FreeBSD (amd64 to sparc64) targets I have to use gmake aka. GNU make 3.81 since a longer time. Also for the ports collection we have to use GNU make for both, gcc and gdb at least. Gruss, Andreas