On Jun 24, 2026, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 10:57, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote:

>> gcc/doc/install.texi states GCC requires make 3.80 to build, so
>> rewrite those bits to avoid the new function.

> GNU Make 3.81 was 20 years old in April so this is depressing.

We can bump the requirement if we want to.

But it's not cool to document a requirement and then not honor it.
More so when the problem comes up late in the build process and in a
very obscure way that doesn't hint that it's a make version issue ;-)

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Free Software Activist     FSFLA co-founder     GNU Toolchain Engineer
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Excluding neuro-others for not behaving ""normal"" is *not* inclusive!

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