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Re: [RFC] Update minimum make version to 3.81

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
Cc: "Paul E. Murphy" <murphyp at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:10:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC] Update minimum make version to 3.81
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On 10 Jun 2016 15:27, Roland McGrath wrote:
> eval is a pretty horrible feature and I'd probably object to introducing
> any uses of it into libc's makefiles.  We already have lots of things that
> might have been done that way, but are instead done with generated makefiles.

while i agree, i still think we should raise the min make ver.
practically speaking, no one is testing 3.79 or 3.80.

i wouldn't mind 3.82 myself -- that's 2010.  our gcc & binutils
requirements are more recent than that.
-mike

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