From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: require GNU make to build emacs?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:19:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsot7jnk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802250252.m1P2qWrg023740@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:52:31 -0800")
>> > Shouldn't we require GNU make to build Emacs? It is widely available,
>> > and excellent too. It works on all platforms we support.
>>
>> > Having a modern make should help simplify the makefiles and maybe the
>> > whole build process.
>>
>> > GCC has required GNU make for 3-4 years without any problems.
>>
>> I don't think we should worry about it now,
> What you do mean by "now"?
> Will "now" change? :-)
Probably, but ... not now,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 23:44 require GNU make to build emacs? Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-25 2:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-25 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-25 5:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-26 1:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-26 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-26 2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-25 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
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