Re: Officially require GNU Make to build Guile? (was Re: Bootstrap optimization)

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Mikael,

Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> writes:

> But, as you concluded, Guile currently uses GNU Make specific
> functionality. $(filter-out ...) in bootstrap/Makefile.am is such a
> case and also the vpath and %-thingies in am/bootstrap.am.

I guess you're right.

> Probably, you should start out by making an inventory of the various
> uses of GNU Make functionality and for each case evaluate how much
> work would be required to make it standard. First then it is possible
> to decide if it is worth to do it.
>
> However, note that applying my suggested patch would not really change
> the situation much in this respect since that piece of functionality
> already now depends on the GNU Make specific $ (filter-out ...), such
> that when GNU Make specifics get handled, having applied my patch
> doesn't really increase the amount of work in any way.

It's a good point.  Okay, I'm convinced.  Please go ahead and push your
patch to stable-2.2.  Thanks for talking me through it.

     Regards,
       Mark