Re: [Plplot-devel] done with config changes + STATUS QUESTION

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Yes, we should state plainly that GNU make is a requirement.  Besides
the stuff that is in there now, for which creative people may or may
not be able to find workarounds in vendor makes of various strains,
there is also the issue of future embellishments to the makefiles that
I aim to do, one of these days.  Requiring GNU make means, for one
thing, that testing on one platform provides assurance about
functionality on other platforms.  One problem I see with Joao's
proposed solution for that one line, is that I don't know what it
means without researching, and thus I cannot possibly know with
confidence that it will work on /other vendor/ make's (Sun, Data
General, IRIX, HP/UX, etc).  By using GNU make, we can author on Linux
(or whatever each developers personal preferred platfrom is), and be
confident that the makefiles will also work on other systems if they
just use GNU make.  I view that as a significant enablement for
continued improvement to the build system.

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
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 > > No, if using gnu make-3.74 (in my home bin dir) everything runs OK=
.
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 > Good.  That is all that is required.
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 > As I understand Geoff and Maurice's posts on this issue, we no longe=
r
 > accomodate our Makefiles to account for everybody's different variat=
ions of
 > the make command.  Instead, our policy (which I will state in the re=
lease
 > notes so everybody is clear about this ) is we demand our users use =
Gnu
 > make. So each of our non-Linux users will be faced with exactly your=

 > situation on OSF1, and the solution for them is to download Gnu make=
 and
 > install and use it.  I am glad it seems to be working well on OSF1.
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 > Alan
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