[tex-k] [tex-live] make = gmake?

[Karl Berry]

    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?  I am not
sure, but I have the impression that several of the Unix TL builds are
done with other makes (BSD, in particular; maybe MacOSX, not sure).
Although installing gnu make is easy enough, adding new requirements of
volunteers is still something to avoid if we can.

Thanks,
karl

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:02:30 +0200
From: "Martin Schröder" <martin at oneiros.de>
To: tex-live at tug.org
Cc: tex-k at mail.tug.org, Olaf Weber <olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl>,
   Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr>,
   Thomas Esser <te at dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: [tex-live] make = gmake?

Hi,
some years ago I experimented with parallel makes of teTeX and noticed
that this is not really possible with stock make; one needs the gnu
extensions for multiple targets
(http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Multiple-Targets).

At that time the decision was to use only stock make features and not
use gnu extensions. Is this still uphold? gnu make can be easily
installed on most Unix plattforms, I think.