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

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 15 May 2006 1:42 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Just confirming: building on Red Hat 9 would be dropped then?
>
> building with <=make-3.79.x would be dropped

Ah.  That's a no then.

> > Why are we still supporting the 2.4 kernel then, if we won't build under
> > any distro that has a 2.4 kernel?
>
> now you're just making stuff up ... seriously, where did you pull this out
> of ?

I just checked and I was off by about a year: the 2.6 kernel (December 2003) 
is one year newer than Make 3.80 (October 2002), so it would be another 12 
months before we'd have to drop support for 2.4 by this metric.

I picked Red Hat 9 as a suitably "old" distro to regression test against 
because 3 years ago it had 50% market share.  The next bump (Fedora Core 1) 
never quite managed to have half the market share of Red Hat 9, and Fedora's 
share of the market has declined since.  There is not a newer "obvious 
target" for testing that we build in older environments.

Would you like to suggest one?  I want to test against something specific.

> -mike

Rob
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