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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2016-11-17 11:59:18 -0500
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2016-11-17 11:59:18 -0500
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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.
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+2016-11-17 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
+
+ * NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make.
+
2016-11-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* c-exp.y (c_print_token): Use parser_fprintf instead of fprintf.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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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