Re: [PATCH] Require GNU make 3.82

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 7/14/20 4:30 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
> On 7/18/19 12:57 PM, Alan Hayward wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
> 
> This patch (on top of gdb 9.1) works around the issue for make 3.81.
> 
> Build with make 3.81 and make 4.2.1 on x86_64-linux.

And here (
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2019-December/163800.html )
is a patch (with a detailed analysis of the actual failure) on master
that fixes the build with 3.81.

Thanks,
- Tom