GNU make 3.99.92 release candidate is available

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all. The third release candidate, 3.99.92, for the next version of GNU make is now available on alpha: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.99.92.tar.bz2 7ef9dabbfd8ad202ef05edb5836eb4b9 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.99.92.tar.gz dc238186a23407a3a0b3fe29db48efaf There are a number o

[bug #31430] Add support for the BSD "shell assignment" operator (!=)

2013-09-22 Thread David A. Wheeler
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #31430 (project make): Thanks so much for adding the BSD shell assignment operator to GNU make!! I look forward to this and other improved-portability goodies (such as the new POSIX ::= assignment operator) in the next GNU make release.

[bug #27609] Stupid inference rule for yacc files can clobber C sources!

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #27609 (project make): Item Group: Bug => Enhancement ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Messag

[bug #30823] double-colon rules not always executed in parallel make

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #30823 (project make): Status:None => Duplicate Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: I was able to reproduc

[bug #31430] Add support for the BSD "shell assignment" operator (!=)

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #31430 (project make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #31155] .SECONDEXPANSION: incorrect order only parsing in patterns

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #31155 (project make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:

[bug #31621] interaction of pattern rules and globs

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #31621 (project make): Status:None => Duplicate Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: I can reproduce this w

Re: make check on darwin

2013-09-22 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-09-22 06:50, Paul Smith wrote: > Just curious: did you build with --disable-load because something failed > otherwise? Or just because you wanted to? I didn't investigate the errors produced with --enable-load. Here they are: features/load ... Erro

[bug #39560] directory search order for link libraries

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #39560 (project make): Status:None => Duplicate Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I can reproduce this o

[bug #40056] make should automatically detect targets with low resolution timestamps

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #40056 (project make): My concern about this patch is that there are plenty of examples of files which have an NS field of 0, even on ext4 filesystems which support sub-second timestamps. This could be true just by chance, but it's actually true much more often because m

[bug #40056] make should automatically detect targets with low resolution timestamps

2013-09-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #40056 (project make): Philip Guether writes on the bug-make mailing list: You're looking for pathconf(path, _PC_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION) See also: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fpathconf.html However, last I checked glibc and Linux di

Re: GNU make 3.99.91 release candidate is available

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
I've done some testing and bug fixing using the Solaris build service, thanks very much Dago! On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 20:52 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > I'll get an error compiling it on Solaris 10 Sparc with Sun Studio 12: > > /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -D_REENTRANT -pthreads > -I/opt/csw/include/