[Emacs-diffs] trunk r117304: * configure.ac: Require at least version 3.81 of GNU make.

[Glenn Morris]

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revno: 117304
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Tue 2014-06-10 20:03:40 -0700
message:
  * configure.ac: Require at least version 3.81 of GNU make.
  It's 8 years old and has some useful features not in older versions.
  
  * etc/NEWS: Mention this.
modified:
  ChangeLog                      changelog-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1538
  configure.ac                   
configure.in-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-783
  etc/NEWS                       news-20100311060928-aoit31wvzf25yr1z-1

=== modified file 'ChangeLog'
--- a/ChangeLog 2014-06-10 19:43:13 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog 2014-06-11 03:03:40 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-06-11  Glenn Morris  <address@hidden>
+
+       * configure.ac: Require at least version 3.81 of GNU make.
+
 2014-06-10  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
 
        Rely on AC_CANONICAL_HOST to detect whether we're using mingw.

=== modified file 'configure.ac'
--- a/configure.ac      2014-06-10 19:43:13 +0000
+++ b/configure.ac      2014-06-11 03:03:40 +0000
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
    if test -n "$MAKE"; then
      emacs_makeout=`($MAKE --version) 2>/dev/null` &&
      case $emacs_makeout in
-       'GNU Make '*)
+       'GNU Make '[[4-9]]* | 'GNU Make '3.8[[1-9]]* | 'GNU Make '3.9*)
         ac_path_MAKE_found=:;;
      esac
      ac_cv_path_MAKE=$MAKE
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
      AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK([MAKE], [make gmake gnumake],
        [[emacs_makeout=`($ac_path_MAKE --version) 2>/dev/null` &&
         case $emacs_makeout in
-          'GNU Make '*)
+          'GNU Make '[4-9]* | 'GNU Make '3.8[1-9]* | 'GNU Make '3.9*)
              # Use the fully-qualified program name only if the basename
              # would not resolve to it.
              if eval \$emacs_tried_$ac_prog; then
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
         esac
         eval emacs_tried_$ac_prog=:]])
    fi])
-$ac_path_MAKE_found || { AC_MSG_ERROR([[Building Emacs requires GNU Make.
+$ac_path_MAKE_found || {
+AC_MSG_ERROR([[Building Emacs requires GNU Make, at least version 3.81.
 If you have it installed under another name, configure with 'MAKE=...'.
 For example, run '$0 MAKE=gnu-make'.]])
 }

=== modified file 'etc/NEWS'
--- a/etc/NEWS  2014-06-08 23:41:43 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS  2014-06-11 03:03:40 +0000
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 +++
 ** Building Emacs now requires C99 or later.
 
-** Building Emacs now requires GNU make.
+** Building Emacs now requires GNU make, version 3.81 or later.
 
 ** By default, Emacs no longer works on IRIX.  We expect that Emacs
 users are not affected by this, as SGI stopped supporting IRIX in