From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125180 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2016 03:35:14 -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 125164 invoked by uid 89); 17 Nov 2016 03:35:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 03:35:02 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7DTV-0006ek-2n for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:35:01 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7DTU-0006ea-Vi; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:34:57 -0500 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1080 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c7DTU-0002nT-7g; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:34:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 03:35:00 -0000 Message-Id: <838tsig4ny.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Simon Marchi CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <9836fdc1e7775a7afdada97654d044ef@polymtl.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:04:59 -0500) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Document new hard requirement on GNU make Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20161116160808.12830-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <20161116160808.12830-2-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <83oa1ffkwa.fsf@gnu.org> <814e16be74a92751d1a2e47ba88b6ad9@polymtl.ca> <83inrnfier.fsf@gnu.org> <9836fdc1e7775a7afdada97654d044ef@polymtl.ca> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:04:59 -0500 > From: Simon Marchi > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > 3.82 shouldn't be a problem, I think. > > Oops, I said that without even checking the version I have on my system. > Ubuntu 14.04, strangely, has make 3.81. Apparently that was because of > a critical bug on Debian with 3.82, which stayed open for a long time, > preventing the upgrade. Debian and its derivatives, including Ubuntu, > were stuck with that for a long time. > > Refs: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31912233/how-to-update-make-3-81-linux > https://lwn.net/Articles/569920/ > > I don't think it's worth complicating the lives of those users just to > get the benefit of the behaviour change I mentioned. > > So I'm back at having no idea what version we should require. I guess that'd be 3.81, then.