Should we require GNU make in binutils?

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 25.08.2023 05:23, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> > I see the toplevel Makefile.in makes use of $(filter-out ..) and other
> > GNU Make extensions, and requires GNU Make 3.80 or later when building
> > gcc.  gdb also uses GNU make extensions.  It seems silly to me that
> > binutils is still trying to avoid GNU make extensions.
> 
> Aren't pattern rules a GNU extension as well? We're already using them
> in e.g. bfd/Makefile.

Yes, came in with commit bd32be01c997, Jan 2022.  OK, I'll commit the
ld change too.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM