On Thu, 25 Jun 2026, 08:14 Richard Biener, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Currently we document that GNU Make 3.80 is required. That was > > released in 2002. GNU Make 3.81 was released in April 2006. I would > > like to suggest that 20 years is enough time for 3.81 to be > > widespread. > > > > Bumping the requirement to 3.81 would allow us to use the $(abspath > > ...) function, which we already started using in libstdc++, not > > realising that it relies on a newer version than our docs require. > > OK, can you produce a patch to install.texi? Can you check whether > branches are affected by the effective bump in requirement and backport > as well? > Alexandre (and Jakub) already patched the affected branches to stop using abspath, so I think we could just change the prerequisite for trunk and not the release branches.
