[RFC] Update minimum make version to 3.81

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Fri Jun 10 23:10:00 GMT 2016


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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