>>> On 03.05.17 at 15:29, <MMarek@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2017-05-03 08:46, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> Hello Linus and Kbuild developers. >> >> >> Documentation/process/changes.rst says the minimal version >> of GNU Make is 3.80, but actually building the kernel >> with this version has been broken for a long time. >> >> Specifically, it got broken by commit c8589d1e9e01 (i.e. Linux 3.18). >> Sorry, it's me who broke it. >> >> Here is my excuse: >> - It is almost 3 years since then, but nobody complained about it. >> - GNU Make 3.80 is almost 15 years old. >> (Even GNU Make 3.81 was released in 2006.) >> - People seldom test their makefiles on such old GNU Make version, >> so they often use some features that are not supported by version 3.80. > > Agreed. It's not just the kbuild change that broke it, but as you say, > new make features tend creep into random Makefiles. So I'm fine > adjusting the documentation to match reality. > > Adding Jan Beulich to Cc, who to fix these cases in the past. Thanks for asking. As I don't recall having run into the specific problem mentioned above, I suppose I've given up at some point and forced the use of a newer make even on those very old distros that I tend to build / test stuff on every once in a while. IOW I guess I'm fine with the proposed change, and I can help myself if nevertheless needed. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
