kbuild: ensure Make >= 3.82 is used
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:24:20 +0000 (20:24 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:42:40 +0000 (15:42 +0900)
commit87d599fc3955e59b1ed30f350321a4be5353f945
treef43f5dc1ec8a0e381d011c63f4f4989964c025eb
parent3d57e1b7b1d42d4040f0d993b66ff06beda02c54
kbuild: ensure Make >= 3.82 is used

Documentation/process/changes.rst notes the minimal GNU Make version,
but it is not checked anywhere.

We could check $(MAKE_VERSION), but another simple way is to check
$(.FEATURES) since the feature list always grows.

GNU Make 3.81 expands $(.FEATURES) to:
  target-specific order-only second-expansion else-if archives jobserver check-symlink

GNU Make 3.82 expands $(.FEATURES) to:
  target-specific order-only second-expansion else-if shortest-stem undefine archives jobserver check-symlink

To ensure Make >= 3.82, you can check either 'shortest-stem' or
'undefine'.

This way is not always possible. For example, Make 4.0 through 4.2 have
the same set of $(.FEATURES). At that point, we will need to come up
with a different approach.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
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