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Re: New module gnu-make
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: New module gnu-make |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:01:13 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Since the module has no files in lib/, the license is more clearly expressed
> as 'GPLed build tool'. This makes it clear that an LGPLed package may use this
> module.
Thanks for catching this; I installed that change (also for posix-shell).
> since there is only one development branch of GNU make (i.e. no
> forks), and subsequent releases of GNU make don't remove features of
> previous releases.
Yes. I was thinking of a different scenario, though. Other 'make'
implementations might support the % feature of GNU Make, and if so,
then we might want makefiles to use this feature even when another
'make' implementation is used.