On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Michael Stahl <mst...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 26/09/14 17:30, Peter Foley wrote: >> While looking at the gbuild-to-ide script, I noticed that almost all >> of the regex broke due to the below change in make 4.0. >> >> * In -p output, .RECIPEPREFIX settings are shown and all target-specific >> variables are output as if in a makefile, instead of as comments. > > ouch... > >> I'm wondering if it would be fine to require make >= 4.0 to run this script? >> Otherwise, two sets of regex would be needed, one for make 4.0+ and >> one for older versions. >> I'm going to try to get the script to work with make 4.0, but it would >> be easier if I don't have to worry about old make versions. > > for Windows, developers need to download GNU make anyway, and i don't > think it's a problem if we require a Win32 GNU make >= 4.0... i don't > have the time and inclination to support non-Win32 GNU make anyway :) > > but for the other platforms usually only GNU make 3.82 or even 3.81 (on > Mac, iirc) is available on the system, so if we require >= 4.0 then that > means another thing that has to be installed manually, which is probably > not a good direction to go in...
On Mac, with recent SDK, there is alreay the need to manually build m4, autogen,.... At this point I do not think that requiring gnumake 4.0 would be much more a hassle We just have to give some warning so that tb owner have the time to prepare... Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
