rocky/rpms — comment on commit fcfc9777e79705230041af42143a7e2d4595dba8
File: specs/remake/remake.spec line 12
By rocky:

>It might very well work on RHEL3/4, the question is rather what would be its utility on such platforms.

The ability to debug makefiles and diagnose problems more easily. :-)

>RHEL (as opposed to Debian and Fedora) puts an enormous emphasis on the stability of the core in general and the toolchain in particular. That is if you are using RHEL3 for instance, either you are expected to be using the whole stack or go use later version / other distribution if this is what you want.

Well, in that case they probably wouldn't be including rpmforge. In situations in where there were such restrictions and I had to solve problems, here is what I have done and would recommend to other to do: fix your problem with _remake_; then go back to GNU _make_.

Again, _remake_ shouldn't be thought of right now as a _replacement_ for _make_, but as an _adjunct_ to _make_. That's why it installs as a different name and the two can be used side by side.

>but if you think 3.81 and 3.82 are very close, we might go for 3.82 and exclusivedist it to el5/6.

Close in that if someone were using prior versions of _make_ and suddenly started using 3.82, I doubt users would notice a difference. It's not like gcc or C++ and its libraries where all of a sudden things that worked start give warnings, or worse, break.