On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 18:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > But I recall there had been massively broken gmake > releases and releases with major functional changes, which had broken > a lot.
I don't believe that this is so. There have been changes which broke some makefiles here and there, and sometimes popular ones (for example there was a small change which broke two rules in the Linux kernel makefiles, which caused some annoyance) but "massively broken" is not accurate. Somewhere (lost it now) someone mentioned needing make to build GNU make (bootstrapping). In fact, GNU make has always provided a "build.sh" shell script that can be used if you don't already have any version of make. This script doesn't attempt to do build avoidance, of course, but for a program the size of GNU make this is not so important... and anyway, once you've built it the first time you'll have a "make" you can use for future attempts. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
