Re: [PATCH] gdb/README: Document GNU Make requirement

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
> Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu,  5 Mar 2026 15:29:30 -0300
> 
> User la_mettrie on IRC mentioned that they were having difficulties
> building GDB, and after some debugging, we figured out that they weren't
> using GNU Make. This is in the final documentation, but considering that
> it is not an obvious place to look, and the README mentions other build
> requirements, so this seems like a pretty obvious oversight.
> ---
>  gdb/README | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README
> index 492b0891668..09c88bcd19c 100644
> --- a/gdb/README
> +++ b/gdb/README
> @@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ configure the build tree.)
>  C++17 compiler for your system, you may be able to download and install
>  the GNU CC compiler.  It is available via anonymous FTP from the
>  directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'.  GDB also requires an ISO
> -C standard library.  The GDB remote server, GDBserver, builds with some
> -non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.
> +C standard library and GNU Make.  The GDB remote server, GDBserver,
> +builds with some non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.

Thanks, but shouldn't this be much closer to the beginning of the
file, like where the build commands are first shown?  Mentioning that
here, so close to the end of the installation overview, sounds too
late.  People might overlook it.