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From: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: nd <nd@arm.com>, Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Require GNU make 3.82
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190715101124.77677-1-alan.hayward@arm.com> (raw)

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:

2019-07-15  Alan Hayward  <alan.hayward@arm.com>

	* NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.
---
 gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 4e479bf738..3a92b24e44 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -251,6 +251,11 @@ 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
-- 
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)

             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-15 10:11 Alan Hayward [this message]
2019-07-16  0:51 ` Kevin Buettner
2019-07-16 10:36   ` Alan Hayward
2019-07-18  6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-18 10:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-18 10:57   ` Alan Hayward
2019-08-01 16:09     ` Alan Hayward
2020-07-14 14:30     ` Tom de Vries
2020-07-15  7:46       ` Tom de Vries
2020-07-15 17:14         ` Kevin Buettner
2020-07-15 17:31           ` Tom de Vries
2020-07-15 19:14             ` Kevin Buettner
2020-07-15 21:48               ` Tom de Vries
2020-07-14 11:47 ` Tom de Vries

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