From c6bdbeb7c468489da9468445057d245929c3d91c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Hayward Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 16:51:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index d136ee6aef5..e1275fbb5ee 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2019-08-01 Alan Hayward + + * NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82. + 2019-07-16 Tom Tromey * tui/tui-wingeneral.h (tui_copy_win, tui_box_win): Don't diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index ac44399304c..3c3351e2c47 100644 --- 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 -- 2.30.2