Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > In this case it is worth looking at the actual changelog for 4.1: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2014-10/msg00000.html > The list of new features is: > > * New variables: $(MAKE_TERMOUT) and $(MAKE_TERMERR) are set to non-empty > values if stdout or stderr, respectively, are believed to be writing to > a terminal. These variables are exported by default. > > * Allow a no-text-argument form of the $(file ...) function. Without a > text argument nothing is written to the file: it is simply opened in the > requested mode, then closed again. > > * Change the fatal error for mixed explicit and implicit rules, that was > introduced in GNU make 3.82, to a non-fatal error. However, this syntax > is still deprecated and may return to being illegal in a future version > of GNU make. Makefiles that rely on this syntax should be fixed. > See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33034 I'll note that this apparently (according to the linked bug report) affects out-of-source builds of the Linux kernel (!), which did not work with 4.0.x and work again with 4.1. > So this is basically a minor release, almost entirely bugfixes. > If there are *any* issues caused by the upgrade in rawhide, then > it'll be reason not to upgrade F23. Otherwise, I'd just go with > the upgrade. +1 I think that especially build tools SHOULD be kept as up to date as possible. Doing otherwise can prevent building other current software. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
