From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4478 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2016 22:05:12 -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 4462 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2016 22:05:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Articles, 3.81 X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:05:01 +0000 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 33) id B0AB01E80B; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:04:59 -0500 (EST) To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Document new hard requirement on GNU make X-PHP-Originating-Script: 33:rcube.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:05:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <83inrnfier.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Message-ID: <9836fdc1e7775a7afdada97654d044ef@polymtl.ca> X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00462.txt.bz2 On 2016-11-16 12:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> With make >= 3.82, it would do the right thing (choose the second >> one), >> by choosing the rule with the shorter stem. Before that, it used the >> order of definition (the first that matches wins). So it would be >> nice >> for that reason to require >= 3.82, but it's also possible to work >> around if that's too recent. > > 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.