On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 17:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > > From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org>Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:55:55 - > > 0400 > > > > On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 15:29 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I agree with the list. As for Basic.mk, we can forget about it > > > from my POV. Paul should make the call, but from my POV that > > > file was unmaintained and therefore unsupported. > > > > Why do we think it's unmaintained / unsupported? > > Because I never use it when building the MinGW port of Make.
I see. I never use MinGW, as I don't have it installed. The Basic.mk model is only useful for systems where you can't run configure and generate a Makefile that way. For systems where configure can't be invoked it provides a makefile framework (versus a bat file) that can be used if you already have a previous GNU Make available (or once you build one once with the bat file).