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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
Date: Sun,  2 Oct 2022 05:28:35 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221001202836.3110985-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)

GNU Make 3.81 fails in CONFIG_RUST=y builds.

  rust/Makefile:105: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
  make[1]: *** [prepare] Error 2
  make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2

The error message looks weird, but the reason is that the 'private'
keyword is only supported since GNU Make 3.82.

GNU Make 3.81 is still able to build the kernel if CONFIG_RUST is
disabled, but it might be a good timing to bump the minimal GNU Make
version. Perhaps, I am the last person who was testing GNU Make 3.81.

GNU Make 3.81 was released in 2006, GNU Make 3.82 in 2010.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 19c286c23786..26a7fd875cfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
 GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  11.0.0           clang --version
-GNU make               3.81             make --version
+GNU make               3.82             make --version
 bash                   4.2              bash --version
 binutils               2.23             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ docs on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
 Make
 ----
 
-You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
+You will need GNU make 3.82 or later to build the kernel.
 
 Bash
 ----
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-01 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-01 20:28 Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-10-02 19:22 ` [PATCH] docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82 Miguel Ojeda
2022-10-06  0:18   ` Masahiro Yamada

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