GCC 3.4.0 and FreeBSD base distibution

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:20:56PM -0800, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> Hello everebody.
> 
> As you can see at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/index.html the GNU project
> is preparing to release their next major release version of GCC. There
> is a list of changes this release will implement. You can read it at
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html  My question is about the first
> change that is declared in that list:
> 
> GNU Make is now required to build GCC
> 
> Does it mean that GNU Make will be a part of FreeBSD base distribution
> or GCC will be patched so it can be build by the standard (IEEE Std
> 1003.1) make? As far as I know FreeBSD's make conforms to this
> standard, almost.

No, FreeBSD does not use the GCC build infrastructure to build the gcc
suite as part of 'make world', so gmake will continue to not be used
or required.

Kris
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