diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 intl/icu/source/config/gmakever.mk
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/intl/icu/source/config/gmakever.mk	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
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+## -*-makefile-*-
+#******************************************************************************
+#   Copyright (C) 2008-2011, International Business Machines
+#   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
+#******************************************************************************
+# Make sure we have the right version of Make.
+
+at_least=3.80
+ifeq ($(MACHTYPE),i370-ibm-mvs)
+at_least=3.79.1
+endif
+ifeq ($(PLATFORM),OS390)
+at_least=3.79.1
+endif
+ifeq ($(MACHTYPE),powerpc-ibm-os400)
+at_least=3.77
+endif
+
+latest_a=$(firstword $(sort $(MAKE_VERSION) $(at_least)))
+
+ifneq ($(at_least),$(latest_a))
+err:
+	@echo "ERROR: $(MAKE_VERSION) - too old, please upgrade to at least $(at_least)"
+	@false
+else
+ok:
+	@echo "$(MAKE_VERSION) (we wanted at least $(at_least))"
+endif
+