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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 22:05:01 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux x86_64
On 2017-10-26 21:42, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:39:52PM +0200, altr@...2.de wrote:
>>> GNU Make 3.80
>>
>> OK, we might try to reproduce the problem with that.
>
> I just did: the problem manifests itself just like this when using GNU
> Make 3.80, but goes away with 3.81.
>
> magnum, we have this weird make rule:
>
> %.cl: | ../run/kernels
> $(CP) $< ../run/kernels
>
> Do we really need it like that? I'm not familiar with that trick, and
> couldn't easily find it in documentation - the '|' character isn't in
> the index here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index
I can't even remember what it does... we need to figure that out >.<
> Maybe we can avoid it to relax the GNU Make version requirement?
>
> Alternatively, we can use this test as an opportunity to document the
> exact minimum version of GNU Make we require in jumbo - now we know it's
> 3.81 or newer.
That would be an alternative. I wonder how we could make 'make' itself
bail with an informative message if it's too old...
magnum
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