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). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
