On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:17:26PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > > > Avoid forking off a shell to resolve the absolute path of the output > > > > directory when make's builtin $(abspath ...) function will do an > > > > adequate job. > > > > > > The abspath function is not available in make 3.80. > > > > Do we really support make 3.80? It was released in 2002 and 3.81 > > followed in April 2006. That makes it a decade old now. I'd be surprised > > if anyone was still using it to build recent kernels. > > > > Is there a formal process for increasing the dependencies listed in > > Documentation/Changes? Should I simply make that change as part of this > > patch? Do we need broad approval? > > Hmm, what problem are you trying to solve here? Your proposal looks to > me like a gratuitous requirement for users to upgrade their tool (its age > doesn't matter), which is often a burden and in any case requires extra > time which could be used for something else. Don't fix what ain't broke! Fine. Thierry
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