depends: remove workaround for Make older than 4.2.90 #34923

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   fanquake commented at 1:47 am on March 26, 2026: member

   This was introduced for distros shipping older make, such as Ubuntu 20.04 (4.2.1). It’s likely that any distros being used for Darwin and Windows cross compilation, are shipping a newer make at this point.
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   maflcko commented at 8:34 am on March 26, 2026: member

   What about macOS. IIRC it tends to ship ancient stuff, like ancient Bash, and possibly make as well?
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   hebasto commented at 8:57 am on March 26, 2026: member

   What about macOS. IIRC it tends to ship ancient stuff, like ancient Bash, and possibly make as well?

   Isn’t this already addressed in #32086?

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   hebasto commented at 2:37 pm on March 26, 2026: member

   Concept ACK.
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    hebasto commented at 2:42 pm on March 26, 2026: member

    Maybe add a note to depends/README.md that GNU Make >= 4.3 is expected?
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    luke-jr commented at 2:14 pm on March 27, 2026: member

    Isn’t depends explicitly supported for building on older systems lacking the required dependency versions? (Not just for cross-compiking)
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    hebasto commented at 2:59 pm on March 27, 2026: member

    Isn’t depends explicitly supported for building on older systems lacking the required dependency versions? (Not just for cross-compiking)

    Could you clarify how that relates to this PR?

    For context, depends/hosts/mingw32.mk is strictly for cross-compiling. While depends/hosts/darwin.mk handles both cross-compiling and native static builds, using GNU Make provided by Homebrew is documented for the that use case.

13. depends: remove workaround for Make older than 4.2.90

    This was introduced for distros shipping older make, such as
    Ubuntu 20.04 (4.2.1). It's likely that all distros being used for
    Darwin and Qindows cross compilation, are shipping a newer make at
    this point.

    e9a9706061
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