From: Garrett C. <yan...@gm...> - 2009-11-06 22:03:44
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Garrett Cooper <yan...@gm...> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Andi Kleen <an...@fi...> wrote: >> Subrata Modak <su...@li...> writes: >>> >>> ======================== >>> OCTOBER 2009 Highlights: >> >> s/High/Low/ >> >>> ======================== >>> 1. LTP Makefiles rewrite:(Project started 1.2 years back) >>> I. To accommodate correct build/installation practices, >>> II. better integrate Autoconf/Automake with tests for safer >>> builds, >>> III. better cross-compilation of LTP sources. >> >> Just as a warning for everyone: that change broke building on most old >> distributions and there seems to be no interest in fixing that. >> >> Unless you're running the latest and greatest better stay with older LTP >> versions. > > Andi, > Let's keep this discussion on track with the other thread that's > open. We can probably come to an engineering solution that will allow > your version of make (3.80) to function, but I think that a line needs > to be drawn in the sand at that version because make 3.79 is too > ancient (~7 years old) to work with. Andi and Arjen did make a valid point in the other thread. If you do not have access to make 3.81, please avoid this release. I will work on filling in the gaps for 3.80 to function, but users with make 3.79 will need to upgrade to either 3.80 or 3.81. Thanks, -Garrett |