[csw-maintainers] [csw-users] cswproto not found

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Mar 12 09:17:19 -0400 2009:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:10:46PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > This is now checked on each invocation and prints an error if
> > there are gmake features missing:
> > 
> > > dam at login [login]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/autoconf/trunk/gar > gmake
> > > gar.mk:25: *** Your version of 'make' is too old: 3.80. Please make  
> > > sure you are using at least 3.81.  Stop.
> > > zsh: 16007 exit 2     gmake
> > 
> 
> that's really sad. shades of creeping linuxism!
> (always use the latestlatest!!)
> 
> how about just not using the newer 'features', and sticking to nice older
> non-changing standard features??

Two points on this:

1. We should dogfood as much csw stuff as we can.  That means that we
   have abspath available.
2. If/when GAR becomes a standalone package, the dependency will be
   CSWgmake, not SUNWgmake, so again, we should feel free to take
   advantage of the latest features available there.

...and for the record, much of my attraction to CSW in the first place
was to get modern versions of things I take for granted on a Linux
box.  It's not about 'oooh shiny,' it's about hey, I've had feature X
on Linux boxes for several years now (eg: not latest latest),
I'm kind of grumpy without it.

-Ben
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