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

Pedro Alves
2016-11-17T12:43:59Z

On 11/17/2016 10:05 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote on Thu, 17 Nov 2016:
>
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:04:59 -0500
>>> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
>>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>>
>>> So I'm back at having no idea what version we should require.
>>
>> I guess that'd be 3.81, then.
>
> (Mac) OS X/macOS also ships with 3.81. Although that one will presumably
> never be updated to anything newer due to the switch to GPLv3, so it may
> not make sense to limit yourself based on that.

I believe https://www.macports.org/ should make it easy to install
whatever newer dependency than what ships built in with the OS.
(I don't use MacOS, though.) According to:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/gmake/Portfile

they have 4.1 available.

So I think macOS wouldn't be a problem if we wanted to require
something newer.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves