[PATCH] fix erroneous "builddir" reference in libbb/Makefile

[Jason Schoon]

On 5/13/06, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 13 May 2006 08:10, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:52:41PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >  i'm *reasonably* certain that this patch should be applied.
> >
> > If you want to cleanup this area, then please make generally sure to
> > check against make-3.79.1 (as long as this is regarded a requirement),
> > make-3.80 and make-3.81.
>
> i have no problems telling people to stop using anything older than 3.80...
> at this point though, requiring 3.81 is too much imho
>
> maybe add this to a toplevel file somewhere:
> ifneq ($(findstring 3.7,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)
> $(error Your make is too old, please upgrade it to 3.80 or newer)
> endif
> -mike


I completely agree with that.  If you want to build the latest version of a
package, but can't be bothered to upgrade your build tools to something from
4 years ago, tough.  According to freshmeat, make 3.79.1 was released 8
years ago, August of 1998.  Time to let it go.
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