Re: [PATCH] Require GNU make 3.82

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 7/15/20 7:14 PM, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:46:58 +0200
> Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/14/20 4:30 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
>>> On 7/18/19 12:57 PM, Alan Hayward wrote:  
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> On 18 Jul 2019, at 07:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>> From: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
>>>>>> CC: nd <nd@arm.com>, Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:11:29 +0000
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gdbserver has failed to build with GNU make 3.81 since commit 08f10e02be.  
>>>>>
>>>>> Which feature of Make 3.82 and later is required to successfully
>>>>> build gdbserver?
>>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> It’s not a specific feature in 3.82 that is required.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like it is a bug in 3.81. The GDB makefile isn’t doing anything special
>>>> and everything works using 3.82 upwards.
>>>>
>>>> Rewriting the makefile to work around the issue is probably going to be a little
>>>> messy.
>>>>  
>>>
>>> This patch (on top of gdb 9.1) works around the issue for make 3.81.
>>>
>>> Build with make 3.81 and make 4.2.1 on x86_64-linux.  
>>
>> And here (
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2019-December/163800.html )
>> is a patch (with a detailed analysis of the actual failure) on master
>> that fixes the build with 3.81.
> 
> So Bernd's patch should be backported to 9.1?

Um, we've already released 9.2, and I presume closed the branch? So I'm
not sure what you mean.

Thanks,
- Tom