Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/24/2011 04:51 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>      I agree the reason becomes less compelling as more capable systems
>      become more commonplace, but I do not agree ancient RISC boxes are no
>      longer an interesting target for current NTP builds.
>
> The machine I use (and many of us, too) has a MIPS-like chip, the
> Loongson.

I don't think portability has anything to do with age or family of the 
processor, but more with the operating system.  Ancient RISC boxes were 
running only very small parts of the GNU userspace.  Instead, modern 
ARM/MIPS/SPARC/PowerPC machines are often GNU/Linux or Busybox/Linux 
(and if the latter, they are cross-compiled with a GNU toolchain).

Paolo