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

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Richard Stallman wrote:

>       1. We start requiring GNU make in an "experimental" automake 2.0
>        development line (which might, and will, break whathever
>        backward-compatibility gets in its way).
> 
> If we want to experiment with this, we should not do so in Automake!
> 
> Rather, one GNU package could drop support for ordinary Make, and see
> how users react.  If the level of complaint is not too high, then

GCC dropped support for non-GNU make in version 3.4 (April 2004).

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