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Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: brobecker at adacore dot com
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:18:26 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [rfa/rfc] Build libcommon.a for gdb and gdbserver
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> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:14:48 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > 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.
Sorry, but I'm really strongly opposed to making GNU make a
requirement. The fact that GCC requires it is bad enough. It forced
several BSD's to reengineer the GCC build system completely. Please
don't make us do the same thing for GDB!