> why this current release code won't work https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00005.html says make-4.2.1 is from 2016-06-11. In the email thread I cited previously, for what looked like the same errors, we see Paul writing, over a year after that release, on 2017-11-19, "I pushed a change that should allow this to work properly". So the reason that the current release code won't work is, I suggest, because there hasn't been a new release that includes that change. Why not cut to the chase, prove it, tell us and thus help to encourage a new release? If you want a shortcut, perhaps Paul's patch was:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=48c8a116a914a325a0497721f5d8b58d5bba34d4 But patching configure.ac sounds like something that would then need the full build-from-git procedure, with autotools, rather than the build from a release tarball, in which case I think you'd be better off with the git head. Still, perhaps you could patch whatever file the configure script is generating there as a quick proof of concept. On Apr 2, 2018, at 07:03, Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org<mailto:dcla...@blastwave.org>> wrote: On 01/04/18 05:29 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 16:56 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: So I could just lift that out of glibc 2.27 and drop it into the make source tree and have a go at it. Is that the idea here ? You could try, but I'm not optimistic that it will just work. "just work" ? nope. not even close. I think the way forward is to get the latest code from GNU make's Git repository and see if that works: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsavannah.gnu.org%2Fgit%2F%3Fgroup%3Dmake&data=01%7C01%7CMartin.Dorey%40hitachivantara.com%7C3aaed7f79d5f44e9e21408d598a289ba%7C18791e1761594f52a8d4de814ca8284a%7C0&sdata=A3q0nOCtgUS08XtpHymxJQOZ2qTFK9f8Kuo3wgXKhaI%3D&reserved=0 Well sure ... however before I get there I am still baffled why this current release code won't work on an old 32-bit intel debian server? I just compiled kernel 4.15.15 on that machine and am running it now. Certainly if I can compile and run a new kernel on the same machine I would think I can compile GNU make from sources? Or am I stretching here? root@phobos:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 4.15.15-genunix (admsys@phobos) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 7.3.0-13)) #1 SMP Sun Apr 1 22:27:12 UTC 2018 Be sure to read the README.git file for information on building from Git, rather than from a source distribution (it requires extra packages to be installed, such as autotools). yep .. autoreconf and its brethern however I suspect something else is going on here. Dennis _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org<mailto:Bug-make@gnu.org> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnu.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbug-make&data=01%7C01%7CMartin.Dorey%40hitachivantara.com%7C3aaed7f79d5f44e9e21408d598a289ba%7C18791e1761594f52a8d4de814ca8284a%7C0&sdata=yjRoh86gJtY5iJrwAVzEcjD5kfyBTIIEgC9Fjx2qFCo%3D&reserved=0
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