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? Thanks, Richard. > 3.81 also has $(lastword ...), $(realpath ...), $(or ...), and $(and ...). > > GNU Make 3.82 from 2010 adds the .ONESHELL feature but maybe 2010 is > too modern for our tastes ;-)
