F21 System Wide Change: Fedora 21 Make 4.0 Update

Bill Nottingham notting at splat.cc
Mon Apr 14 20:12:36 UTC 2014


Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> == Scope ==
> * Proposal owners:
> ** Rebase to make-4.0
> ** 6 patches need to be updated to work with new sources
> ** 14 patches will be removed as they are already supported by the make-4.0 
> rebase
> ** make.spec will be updated
> ** local build and test (already completed for glibc and gcc)
> ** patch created and submitted
> ** build 
> 
> * Other developers:  There are some minor error message changes that may show 
> up as log file differences.
> 
> If a package's makefile requires a specific version of make, the makefiles may
> need editing to include make 4.0.

We'd want this available before the mass rebuild, so we can catch any issues
related to it. Has an out-of-band rebuild been done that sees if there are
common failures?

Bill


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