We recommend version GNU make version 3.75 or 3.77. Versions before 3.75
have bugs and/or are missing features. Version 3.76 has bugs which
appear when building big projects like GNU libc. 3.76.1 appears to work but
-some people have reported problems.
+some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source,
+please read question ?make first.
?? Do I need a special linker or assembler?
Great! To get this bug fixed convince the authorities to change the laws
and regulations of the country this effects. glibc behaves correctly.
+??make I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
+ segmentation faults.
+
+{AJ} GNU make 3.77 has support for 64 bit filesystems which is slightly
+broken (and one of the new features in the GNU C library 2.1 is 64 bit
+filesystem support :-( ). To get a working make you can use either make
+3.75 or patch 3.77. A working patch is available via RedHat's Rawhide server
+(ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/SRPMS/SRPMS/make-3.77-*src.rpm).
+
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Answers were given by:
{UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>