Re: No progress output when make 4.4.1 builds Linux 4.19 and earlier

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 8:58 AM Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know why this commit is using a make version comparison?

Kernel build system is expected to work with gnu make-3.82.
make-3.82 puts long options before short ones.

$ cat makefile
$(info at parse time makeflags=$(MAKEFLAGS))
all:; $(info at build time makeflags=$(MAKEFLAGS))
$ make-3.82 --warn-undefined-variables -sR
at parse time makeflags= --warn-undefined-variables -sRr
at build time makeflags= --warn-undefined-variables -sRr

regards, Dmitry