Require GNU make 3.82

Gdbserver has failed to build with GNU make 3.81 since commit 08f10e02be.

Update the NEWS file to state that versions earlier than 3.82 are not
supported.

3.82 was released in 2010, 3.81 was released 2006. A quick investigation
of the default GNU make version provided across various distros found the
earliest provided version to be 3.82:
*RHEL 7, Centos 6 - make 3.82
*Fedora 27 - make 4.2.1
*OpenSuse 42.2, SLES11 - make 4.2.1
*Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 - make 4.1
*Debian Jessie - make 4.0

Note that Glibc requires at least 4.0, whereas GCC still allows 3.81.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d136ee6aef56f5cbed38c72a6516787ccdf1738c..e1275fbb5ee404c21ef35436c5a5c1f2af0ee195 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-08-01  Alan Hayward  <alan.hayward@arm.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.
+
 2019-07-16  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
        * tui/tui-wingeneral.h (tui_copy_win, tui_box_win): Don't

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index ac44399304c97f988408eb37702cd06a86b7a3af..3c3351e2c472d0ac4ab21ba43f240bbe260ada7f 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   GDB) in the output directory for each test script.  Multiple invocations
   are appended with .1, .2, .3 etc.
 
+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.82.
+
+  Using another implementation of the make program or an earlier version of
+  GNU make to build GDB or GDBserver is not supported.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on