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From: Alan Hayward <alahay01@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [binutils-gdb] Require GNU make 3.82
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801160827.69303.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c6bdbeb7c468489da9468445057d245929c3d91c

commit c6bdbeb7c468489da9468445057d245929c3d91c
Author: Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 1 16:51:15 2019 +0100

    Require GNU make 3.82
    
    Gdbserver has failed to build with GNU make 3.81 since commit 08f10e02be.
    
    Update the NEWS file to state that versions earlier than 3.82 are not
    supported.
    
    3.82 was released in 2010, 3.81 was released 2006. A quick investigation
    of the default GNU make version provided across various distros found the
    earliest provided version to be 3.82:
    *RHEL 7, Centos 6 - make 3.82
    *Fedora 27 - make 4.2.1
    *OpenSuse 42.2, SLES11 - make 4.2.1
    *Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 - make 4.1
    *Debian Jessie - make 4.0
    
    Note that Glibc requires at least 4.0, whereas GCC still allows 3.81.
    
    gdb/ChangeLog:
    
    	* NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.

Diff:
---
 gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
 gdb/NEWS      | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d136ee6..e1275fb 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-08-01  Alan Hayward  <alan.hayward@arm.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.
+
 2019-07-16  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
 	* tui/tui-wingeneral.h (tui_copy_win, tui_box_win): Don't
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index ac44399..3c3351e 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   GDB) in the output directory for each test script.  Multiple invocations
   are appended with .1, .2, .3 etc.
 
+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.82.
+
+  Using another implementation of the make program or an earlier version of
+  GNU make to build GDB or GDBserver is not supported.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on


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