Re: Cleanup of makefiles 'n stuff

2012-01-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Cc: make-w32@gnu.org, bug-m...@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:01:02 -0500 > > > NMakefile is for building the MS-Windows port with nmake, the > > Microsoft's make program. Given that build_w32.bat exists, we could > > remove it (and the same goes for the make_msvc_* fil

Re: Cleanup of makefiles 'n stuff

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 06:59 -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith > > 1. Standard configure/Makefile.am > > 2. build.sh > > 3. Makefile.DOS > > 4. NMakefile > > 5. SMakefile > > 6. build_w32.bat > > 7. Makefile.ami > > 8. makefile.vms > > 9.

Re: Cleanup of makefiles 'n stuff

2012-01-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:53:25 -0500 > Reply-To: psm...@gnu.org > > Going through the content of GNU make sources recently it occurs to me > we have a LOT of ways to build GNU make. Maybe at one time or another > all these different ways were necessary but I wonder if they