On 17 July 2015 at 19:53, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 July 2015 at 19:09, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> A few days ago I realised that BSD make (bmake) is available in the >>> Archlinux repos, so I decided to give it a try for drm & mesa. >>> >>> While the former was working (minus a small patch) mesa is not so lucky. >>> >>> This series attempts to remove the GNU make idioms, with the first two >>> being the base essential for a successful build from tarball. >> >> ... why should we care about non-GNU make? GNU make has nice features >> that we want to use and we use them. I don't see the benefit. >> > A few reasons: > - It will allow the OpenBSD people to use upstream mesa and devote > that time to something more useful ? > - Mostly a single pattern/issue/thinko seems to be at fault. > - The rules already look a bit shaky :-) > > Note that part from fixing the bmake build the rules are written to > honour the relevant FLAGS and be consistent. > Matt would the above sound reasonable ? I'll be great to be more welcoming to the OpenBSD people, esp. since there aren't that many or serious "issues".
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