> On 3 Sep 2022, at 23:55, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I would like to work on putting out a new release of GNU make. I've > fixed, or merged patches for (thanks especially to Dmitry) most of the > issues that I had in mind for this release, except one: I'd really like > to fix the problem we currently have with handling fatal signals (like > SIGINT), because die() is invoked in a signal handler context and it > does all sorts of things that are not valid in a signal handler. > > I have a partial solution to this but it runs up against the age-old > problem of trying to both wait for data on a file descriptor and also > wait for a child to exit, reliably, in a POSIX system. I'm thinking > about ways to manage this. > > But in the meantime I wanted to let people know in case they wanted to > point out particularly egregious bugs that should absolutely be looked > at before the release (obviously any regressions are most important).
I started testing master recently and hit https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016 which prevented doing any more testing. > > As always I'll be creating release candidates and announcing them here > for people to try out who don't want to go through the process of > bootstrapping from a Git workspace. > Thanks for working on a new release. Best, sam
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