From aba1787b5c2973b1e7f6b5a8465326e0229d2bdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:04:43 +0000 Subject: Update dep to GNU make 4.4 with a note Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 201e2c0..a812494 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -118,7 +118,11 @@ you can get a native toolchain [here](https://skarnet.org/toolchains/). - The ability to loop-mount filesystems on the BUILD machine. - A few necessary tools for the BUILD machine: - + GNU `make`, version 3.81 or later + + GNU `make`, version 4.4 or later. It will work with versions older than 4.4 +if you don't use the `-j` option, but that means slow +builds. (Explanation: when asked for parallel builds, lh-bootstrap uses the +`--jobserver-style` option to `make` in order to work around some bugs. But this +option only appears in GNU make 4.4.) + `bc`, Perl 5 (necessary for the Linux kernel compilation as well as syslinux) + `su`, `patch`, `sed` + `git` -- cgit v1.2.3