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Document new hard requirement on GNU make

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As discussed in [1], it would be benificial for the GDB project to start
requiring GNU make to build its software.  It would allow using useful
GNU-specific constructs, such as pattern rules.  It would also allow
removing the alternative code paths in the Makefiles (guarded by
GMAKE_TRUE/GMAKE_FALSE), simplifying the Makefile code.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-11/msg00331.html

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	* NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make.
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2016-11-17 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make.
2016-11-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* c-exp.y (c_print_token): Use parser_fprintf instead of fprintf.

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compiler. The --disable-build-with-cxx configure option has been
removed.
* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.81.
It is no longer supported to build GDB or GDBserver with another
implementation of the make program or an earlier version of GNU make.
* Native debugging on MS-Windows supports command-line redirection
Command-line arguments used for starting programs on MS-Windows can