From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26339 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2016 20:33:16 -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 26294 invoked by uid 89); 17 Nov 2016 20:33:12 -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=plays, management, our, respond X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients 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; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:33:10 +0000 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 33) id BD4621E93D; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:33:08 -0500 (EST) To: Simon Marchi Subject: Re: Require GNU make to build binutils-gdb 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: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:33:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <20161117200637.GV21655@vapier.lan> References: <144f4f68acf24fc1084b585700c65b63@polymtl.ca> <20161117200637.GV21655@vapier.lan> Message-ID: X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00498.txt.bz2 On 2016-11-17 15:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> In the eventuality this proposition is accepted, should we have a >> check >> in the top-level Makefile that warns the user early if their version >> of >> make is not supported? > > seems like it should be adopted by gcc first ? I am not sure how the management of the top-level files work, so I'll let others respond. But as Andreas Schwab mentioned in our earlier discussions, there is already such a check for gcc: @if gcc ifeq (,$(.VARIABLES)) # The variable .VARIABLES, new with 3.80, is never empty. $(error GNU make version 3.80 or newer is required.) endif @endif gcc Since we don't have a particular reason to want 3.81 over 3.80, we could just re-use this check (make it unconditional), if that makes it easier. > for sim/, i have no problem having it follow gdb, although i was > planning > on converting it to automake ... I think that's a good thing then, automake probably plays better with GNU make than other makes.