From f2ff9acd32b4667ee16a03ca8d10fd8b99e22f46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Marchi Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:59:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Document new hard requirement on GNU make As discussed in [1], it would be benificial for the GDB project to start requiring GNU make to build its software. It would allow using useful GNU-specific constructs, such as pattern rules. It would also allow removing the alternative code paths in the Makefiles (guarded by GMAKE_TRUE/GMAKE_FALSE), simplifying the Makefile code. [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-11/msg00331.html gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index a479c6c7c68..c0c7d7fec66 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2016-11-17 Simon Marchi + + * NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make. + 2016-11-17 Pedro Alves * c-exp.y (c_print_token): Use parser_fprintf instead of fprintf. diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index a6b1282aeca..a5974053e45 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ compiler. The --disable-build-with-cxx configure option has been removed. +* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.81. + + It is no longer supported to build GDB or GDBserver with another + implementation of the make program or an earlier version of GNU make. + * Native debugging on MS-Windows supports command-line redirection Command-line arguments used for starting programs on MS-Windows can -- 2.30.2