Am Sonntag, 18. Februar 2007 00:28 schrieb Phil Sutter: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:55:15PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > There are different kinds of portabilities. Having a known base > > to build upon is sometimes better than working around quirks in > > every other version of the tools available. > > Yes, this is a point indeed. At least because there is another tendency > amongst us, trying to keep both ADK in general and especially maintainer > stuff (e.g. package makefiles) as simple as possible. So highly > complicated, but as well portable makefiles are even worse than ones > with lots of requirements. > > > (Conditional build is also possible, i.e. build it only if it's not yet > > there.) > > Hey, wouldn't this be an idea? I think checkouts won't increase > dramatically, and we can just remove it if GNU make 3.81 has become > standard. > > This thread needs more opinions and dis-/aggreements!
You ask for opinions, here is mine: Either stay with make 3.80 as dependency or automaticly build a newer version on those systems which only have 3.80 (or even an older version). But please don't ask the user for a make upgrade on their host systems. Users don't want to upgrade coreutils like make, gcc, and so on. Please remeber that not only Fedora Core 4 but also Debian Sarge and surely a lot other widely used system still uses 3.80. --Ralph _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
