Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Earnestly
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 04:48:12PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > One way to fix this would be to change the second #if line above to be: > > # if _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION >= GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION > > and see if that works. Yes! This solves the issue and it also solves the __stat issues as well

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 21:19 +, Earnestly wrote: > [I've also found that `make update' is apparently subject to `make -j4' > race conditions resulting in errors like: > > wget: unable to resolve host address ‘cvs.savannah.gnu.org’ > make: *** [Makefile;1584: get-doc/fdl.texi] Error 4 I

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Earnestly
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:54:47PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > That change was made to make's internal usage of glob so that it works > with the latest glibc without errors: before that change if you tried > to use the system glibc glob and it had the newest glibc, make could > crash. Ah yes, I rem

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 18:35 +, Earnestly wrote: > > Also curious: why does the build decide to compile/link the version > > of glob that comes with make? If you're using glibc then it should > > use the one that comes with glibc instead. > > Wasn't this specifically done to workaround make us

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Earnestly
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:02:00PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks for the good info on your version of make and GCC... but... can > you provide details on what operating system you're using? I'm currently using Arch Linux currently on kernel 4.13.11 with a lot of packages built from latest deve

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 16:17 +, Earnestly wrote: > However I am now getting: Thanks for the good info on your version of make and GCC... but... can you provide details on what operating system you're using? I can't reproduce this on any of my systems so I'm just curious. Is it just the newer

Re: Issue using "command" shell builtin in make rules.

2017-11-18 Thread Nick Bowler
On 11/18/17, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 13:43 -0500, Nick Bowler wrote: >> Is this behaviour intended? I noticed the manual says "make may take >> shortcuts that do not affect the results" but in this instance a change >> in results is definitely observed. > > Well, technically "co

Re: undefined reference to `__alloca'

2017-11-18 Thread Earnestly
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:40:50AM +, Earnestly wrote: > Hi, > > For reference my system has the following versions and environs: > > * gcc 7.2.0 > * glibc 2.26.9000 (commit 2fac6a6cd5) > * make 4.2.90 (commit baa57d2) [patched, see below] > > * CPPFLAGS -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 > * CFLAGS -march=x8

Re: output-sync test failure

2017-11-18 Thread Earnestly
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 09:35:18AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > Pushed a fix for this. Thanks, seems to be working again. All that's left is the undefined alloca reference errors. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Build changes

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all. This morning I pushed a batch of changes to the GNU make package build to remove a bunch of older, outdated methods of building GNU make. I removed the NMakefiles, SMakefiles, Visual Studio project files, and some of the outdated .bat files. The goal is to provide three package build cap

Re: Issue using "command" shell builtin in make rules.

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 13:43 -0500, Nick Bowler wrote: > Is this behaviour intended? I noticed the manual says "make may take > shortcuts that do not affect the results" but in this instance a change > in results is definitely observed. Well, technically "command" is not a valid POSIX shell built-

Re: output-sync test failure

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 15:24 +, Earnestly wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:50:50AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > I'm not quite sure how to answer that question: definitely I didn't > > intend the test to fail :). > > Ah sorry, I meant this in regards to whether the test was functioning > corr