Re: s6: compatibility with make<3.82

2015-07-22 Thread Colin Booth
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Buck Evan wrote: > Apparently the 'private' keyword was added in 3.82, but many of the > platforms I care about have older versions of make. > > Would you accept a patch to factor it out? Since everything related to s6 only has runtime dependencies on the libc (or

Re: s6: compatibility with make<3.82

2015-07-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 22/07/2015 15:45, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/politics_of_dependencies.htm Yes, I had already read that, and agree with all your statements. But it's not the same thing here, because we're talking about a development tool. Not a dependency, not even a build-time d

Re: s6: compatibility with make<3.82

2015-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:39:31 +0200 Laurent Bercot wrote: > And wow, my requirement is > that the GNU make package be less than two years old, as opposed to > eight years old. I had no problem compiling s6, and had no dog in the fight until reading the preceding general statement. Here's my res