Re: [PATCH 1/5] Fixes for ancient versions of GNU make

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jason Riedy wrote:

And Johannes Schindelin writes:
 - 
 - Some version of GNU make do not understand $(call), and have 
 - problems to interpret rules like this:

Is building a newer version of GNU make impossible on Irix?

No. But it is annoying to be forced to upgrade every second package. If 
there'd be some real benefit, then okay, I'd do it. But there is really no 
point in not supporting the old version.

Besides, in some environments you are just not allowed to go wild 
installing programs. And in some environments, you just don't have the 
quota.

Hth,
Dscho