> On 16 Jul 2019, at 01:51, Kevin Buettner wrote: > > 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 Agreed. I’ll give it a good week after the last comment before pushing. I did have a look at why the changes broke. I couldn’t see any reason why it would break, other than it being a bug in 3.81. Alan.&j!z޶מb֫rnr