Re: [PATCH] Require GNU make 3.82

[Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>]

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> On 18 Jul 2019, at 07:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
>> CC: nd <nd@arm.com>, Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:11:29 +0000
>> 
>> Gdbserver has failed to build with GNU make 3.81 since commit 08f10e02be.
> 
> Which feature of Make 3.82 and later is required to successfully
> build gdbserver?
> 

It’s not a specific feature in 3.82 that is required.

It looks like it is a bug in 3.81. The GDB makefile isn’t doing anything special
and everything works using 3.82 upwards.

Rewriting the makefile to work around the issue is probably going to be a little
messy.


>> 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.
>> +
> 
> The test is OK, thanks.

Thanks!

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