From 37d69ee30808110bd8336d65af3f999a7a475e1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 00:39:17 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81 Since 2014, you can't successfully build kernels with GNU Make version 3.80. Example errors: $ git describe v4.11 $ make --version | head -1 GNU Make 3.80 $ make defconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/Makefile.host:135: *** missing separator. Stop. make: *** [defconfig] Error 2 $ make ARCH=arm64 help arch/arm64/Makefile:43: *** unterminated call to function `warning': missing `)'. Stop. $ make help >/dev/null ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:25: Extraneous text after `else' directive ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:31: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop. make: *** [help] Error 2 The first breakage was introduced by commit c8589d1e9e01 ("kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency appropriately"). Since then (i.e. v3.18), GNU Make 3.80 has not been able to compile the kernel, but nobody has ever complained aboutt (or noticed) it. Even GNU Make 3.81 is more than 10 years old. It would not hurt to match the documentation with reality instead of fixing makefiles. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 01c5dbcd0f84..cef7bc4d1f9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. Program Minimal version Command to check the version ====================== =============== ======================================== GNU C 3.2 gcc --version -GNU make 3.80 make --version +GNU make 3.81 make --version binutils 2.12 ld -v util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version module-init-tools 0.9.10 depmod -V -- 2.20.1