Re: [PATCH] Make the installation targets a little less chatty

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

On 6/4/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Updated. BTW, where does "no $(call) in Makefile" came from?
It could simplify the thing a lot

Probably, but first let's make it "work right" while not
introducing new stuff.

Just looked for the reasons, which appear to be there:
commit 39c015c556f285106931e0500f301de462b0e46e
Author: Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]
Date:   Sat Feb 18 12:40:22 2006 +0100

   Fixes for ancient versions of GNU make

   Some versions of GNU make do not understand $(call), and have problems to
   interpret rules like this:

   some_target: CFLAGS += -Dsome=defs

   [jc: simplified substitution a bit. ]

   Signed-off-by: Johannes E. Schindelin [off-list ref]
   Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]

I trust Johannes to have such a make, never seen it myself, though.

Yes. I no longer have access to that machine, but it was an SGI machine 
running IRIX, and I had no root access, and I had a quota.

That is when I worked towards getting rid of Python (making the use of it 
optional at first), and working with incompatible or sufficiently non-GNU 
programs like old make, different sed, etc.

At the time I was really annoyed with the situation, especially since it 
was _easy_ to stay compatible with them. I have little sympathy with 
making things just a little simpler for John R. Developer, and 
substantially harder for a lot of users.

So, are you sure you want to force everybody who wants to compile Git to 
use a recent GNU make?

Ciao,
Dscho