On 2015-04-16 11:29, Erik Joelsson wrote:
On 2015-04-16 11:05, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
Am I just a backwards old-timer if I think we should still support
3.81? It's one thing to recommend 4.x to users, I'll agree with that
anytime, but should we require 4.0 by a check in configure, or a
warning?
The "job server", which we rely heavily on in the post source-shuffle
JDK 9 build, was not implemented in gnu make on Windows until 4.0, at
least according to the NEWS file in the gnu make source distribution.
[...]
I certainly agree that we shouldn't force gnu make 4.0 on all
platforms as many linux distributions, Solaris etc are still shipping
with 3.81 so keeping compatibility there is convenient. However, for
Cygwin, that case cannot be made.
Alright. :) We'll have another requirement on Windows, I can live with that.
/Magnus
