[PATCH 1/4] Document new hard requirement on GNU make

Simon Marchi
2016-11-16T16:12:06Z

From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>

As discussed in [1], it would be benificial for the GDB project to start
requiring GNU make to build its software. It would allow using useful
GNU-specific constructs, such as pattern rules. It would also allow
removing the alternative code paths in the Makefiles (guarded by
GMAKE_TRUE/GMAKE_FALSE), simplifying the Makefile code.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-11/msg00331.html

gdb/ChangeLog:

* NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make.
---
gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index a6b1282..d76ea81 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
compiler. The --disable-build-with-cxx configure option has been
removed.

+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make.
+
+ It is no longer supported to build GDB or GDBserver with another
+ implementation of the make program.
+
* Native debugging on MS-Windows supports command-line redirection

Command-line arguments used for starting programs on MS-Windows can
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