[asterisk-dev] Re: russell: trunk r40153 - in /trunk: acinclude.m4 configure configure.ac

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:06:17AM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> ----- Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > So what are the potential problems with not using version 3.81 or
> > later of
> > GNU Make?  Please can some effort be put into removing this
> > restriction?
> 
> We have found that GNU Make versions 3.79 and 3.80 are very prone to 
> segfault and buggy behavior when using documented GNU Make behavior 
> (functionality that has been documented to be available since before 
> 3.79 was released). We found these issues when improving the Makefiles 
> and simplifying them.

Could you please be more specific?

> 
> Yes, it is possible to produce versions of the Makefiles that will 
> not have this requirement, but it would likely require removing some 
> of that simplification. Once Asterisk 1.4 is in beta mode and the 
> Makefiles will not be changing any more, I think it might be 
> reasonable to use these less-simplified Makefiles in the release 
> branch only.

So when can I start looking at trunk on my Sarge machine? (make 3.80)

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