From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 36341 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2019 00:51:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 36327 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jul 2019 00:51:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Greylist:Tue X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:51:55 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F74383F42; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from f29-4.lan (ovpn-117-224.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.224]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 260AC5D9D6; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:51:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Alan Hayward Subject: Re: [PATCH] Require GNU make 3.82 Message-ID: <20190715175153.4effe7e8@f29-4.lan> In-Reply-To: <20190715101124.77677-1-alan.hayward@arm.com> References: <20190715101124.77677-1-alan.hayward@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:11:29 +0000 Alan Hayward wrote: > 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 > > * NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82. This seems okay to me, though I think that Eli needs to approve it. Regardless, I think you should wait a few days to push it in case there are any objections. (The other solution is to rewrite the Makefile rules that caused the breakage.) Kevin