[RFC] Update minimum make version to 3.81

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 06/14/2016 04:44 PM, Paul E. Murphy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/10/2016 06:25 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> It took a long time for GNU/Linux distributors to move on from 3.81.  For 
>> example, Ubuntu 14.04 uses 3.81.
>>
> 
> With a little more elbow grease, I no longer have reason to
> raise this requirement.
> 
> Are there any other compelling reasons to pursue a bump?
 
The only reason would be to reflect reality.

That everyone is using make 3.81 or newer.

That isn't a compelling reason though.

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Cheers,
Carlos.