Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to theArchWG]

[Roland Mainz]

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Otherwise I still re-iterate my concerns that the modularized tree
> should not depend on GPL licenced tools more than necessary. Please
> don't let gnu make or gnu m4 only construct leak in X.Org. OpenBSD (and
> NetBSD if I understand correctly) want to be able to build X using only
> the base system, which doesn't include the gnu version of these tools.

I'd like to keep any dependicies to GNU make out of the tree, too.
Makefiles which use the GNU extensions will only work with GNU make and
no other version of "make" - which I consider a huge loss as nice
goodies like the "distributed make" (=a "make" version which can run
builds in parallel, either locally, over multiple machines or in a
cluster) can no longer be used to compile X. Additionally it may imply
some licensing issues when the X tree can no longer be bootstrapped
without having GNU tools installed (note: I am no laywer nor am I
familar with this kind of stuff, I am just forwarding the rants which
came up a while ago in IRC).

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Bye,
Roland

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