[tex-live] make = gmake?

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Wed Jul 26 20:34:42 CEST 2006


2006/7/26, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
>     At that time the decision was to use only stock make features and not
>     use gnu extensions. Is this still uphold?
>
> I don't know.  How important is the parallel building to you?

Not really. It will become more important with more cores (I currently
only (:-) have 2) in the future.

> Although installing gnu make is easy enough, adding new requirements of
> volunteers is still something to avoid if we can.

Agreed. But does it still work with non-gmake?

Best
   Martin


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