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Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make? (was: Re: [gnu
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Joseph S. Myers |
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Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make? (was: Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] portability) |
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Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:03:17 +0000 (UTC) |
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 1. We start requiring GNU make in an "experimental" automake 2.0
> development line (which might, and will, break whathever
> backward-compatibility gets in its way).
>
> If we want to experiment with this, we should not do so in Automake!
>
> Rather, one GNU package could drop support for ordinary Make, and see
> how users react. If the level of complaint is not too high, then
GCC dropped support for non-GNU make in version 3.4 (April 2004).
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Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Warren Young, 2011/11/22
Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/11/22
Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make? (was: Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] portability), Richard Stallman, 2011/11/22
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