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bfd/docs building on Cygwin

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 11:37:39 GMT 2021 
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:21:42AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 09.02.2021 01:11, Alan Modra wrote:
> > I don't see a problem in requiring GNU make to build binutils, but
> > that should be formalised by saying so in binutils/README.
> 
> Oh, I realize right now GNU make is documented as a requirement
> only when wanting to build in a directory distinct from the
> source one. Perhaps requiring GNU make uniformly is too
> aggressive then? Plus I supposed gdb folks would need to agree
> too, as bfd/ is shared between the two?

They already require GNU make.  From gdb/NEWS

* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.82.

So does gcc.

@item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)

You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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