Crowding out OpenBSD [LWN.net]

Crowding out OpenBSD

Posted Nov 15, 2012 2:52 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Crowding out OpenBSD by jwakely
Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD

Later in the thread Espie complained [1] that GCC requires GNU make, apparently even that requirement is too much ;)

Well, that's politics, isn't it. GNU Make is GPLed, therefore bad (even though it doesn't contaminate projects built with it), therefore all projects should work with BSD make as well. (That the program being compiled is both GPLed and a flagship GNU project itself apparently does not affect this policy in its case, though common sense says it probably should.)

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Crowding out OpenBSD

Posted Nov 15, 2012 14:57 UTC (Thu) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Indeed it is politics, and common sense should indeed let the GNU compiler use GNU make.

My point is that espie@ seems to want to have his cake and eat it. If you refuse to work with upstream (for technical or political reasons) then don't be surprised if upstream forgets about you.

On the plus side, as he says he is happy to leave kettenis@ to deal with GCC, and he recently pushed a load of patches from OpenBSD to GCC, which were gladly accepted (although I did forget to apply one until reminded, but I'd hardly call that "a fight".)