Hi Mikael,
Mikael Djurfeldt <mik...@djurfeldt.com> writes:
> But, as you concluded, Guile currently uses GNU Make specific
> functionality. $(filter-out ...) in bootstrap/Makefile.am is such a
> case and also the vpath and %-thingies in am/bootstrap.am.
I guess you're right.
> Probably, you should start out by making an inventory of the various
> uses of GNU Make functionality and for each case evaluate how much
> work would be required to make it standard. First then it is possible
> to decide if it is worth to do it.
>
> However, note that applying my suggested patch would not really change
> the situation much in this respect since that piece of functionality
> already now depends on the GNU Make specific $ (filter-out ...), such
> that when GNU Make specifics get handled, having applied my patch
> doesn't really increase the amount of work in any way.
It's a good point. Okay, I'm convinced. Please go ahead and push your
patch to stable-2.2. Thanks for talking me through it.
Regards,
Mark
