Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-15 Thread Sam James
> On 15 Sep 2022, at 14:39, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 14:00 +0100, Sam James wrote: >>> Very preliminary results (only mild testing done so far) >>> but the only failure I've hit thus far is autoconf-2.71: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/869257. >>> >>> I'll continue testing. >>

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 14:00 +0100, Sam James wrote: > > Very preliminary results (only mild testing done so far) > > but the only failure I've hit thus far is autoconf-2.71: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/869257. > > > > I'll continue testing. > > It's been very quiet indeed, which is good news. Th

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-15 Thread Sam James
> On 9 Sep 2022, at 05:36, Sam James wrote: > > > >> On 8 Sep 2022, at 22:41, Sam James wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 8 Sep 2022, at 08:12, Paul Smith wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 03:47 +0100, Sam James wrote: I started testing master recently and hit https://savannah.gnu.org

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-08 Thread Sam James
> On 8 Sep 2022, at 22:41, Sam James wrote: > > > >> On 8 Sep 2022, at 08:12, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 03:47 +0100, Sam James wrote: >>> I started testing master recently and hit >>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016 >>> which prevented doing any more testing. >> >

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-08 Thread Sam James
> On 8 Sep 2022, at 08:12, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 03:47 +0100, Sam James wrote: >> I started testing master recently and hit >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016 >> which prevented doing any more testing. > Hi Paul, > Hopefully this is fixed. It works for the examples

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 03:47 +0100, Sam James wrote: > I started testing master recently and hit > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016 > which prevented doing any more testing. Hopefully this is fixed. It works for the examples given anyway. I also downgraded the required version of autoconf to

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 18:59 +0100, Sam James wrote: > When we started testing in Gentoo (not unleashed onto users), > we had several failures that looks liked this almost immediately. I see, thanks. I will look at this tonight. Clearly this change introduces too severe a regression to accept as-

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-06 Thread Sam James
> On 6 Sep 2022, at 15:58, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 03:47 +0100, Sam James wrote: >> I started testing master recently and hit >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016 >> which prevented doing any more testing. > > Just curious: why does this prevent doing any more testing? >

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-06 Thread Martin Dorey
an patching make, but I wouldn't wish that extra work on Sam. From: Bug-make on behalf of Paul Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 07:58 To: Sam James Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: New release of GNU make * EXTERNAL EMAIL * On Mon, 2022-09-

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-06 Thread Paul Smith
. In the previous release, B would not be exported to the $(shell ...) function and so this issue doesn't come up. In the new release, it is and it does. I think there's a better way to handle this than the one you suggest but I will need to look more closely at it. I agree that li

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-05 Thread Sam James
> On 3 Sep 2022, at 23:55, Paul Smith 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&

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-04 Thread Martin Dorey
> I just use `git clean -fdx` Force, recurse into untracked directories and ignore gitignore so that build products are deleted. Just the ticket, thanks. README.git mentions "clean" and "distclean" but not this handy trick.

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-04 Thread Dmitry Goncharov
On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 9:53 AM Paul Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 00:28 +, Martin Dorey wrote: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/configure.ac?id=079 > > 3658c09a8f33581dae6dfbe2483ea279e72b1 > > > > ... imposed a dependency on autoconf 2.71. > > I'm not sure if the

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 00:28 +, Martin Dorey wrote: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/configure.ac?id=079 > 3658c09a8f33581dae6dfbe2483ea279e72b1 > > ... imposed a dependency on autoconf 2.71. I'm not sure if there's a need for this new autoconf version or not, I can look at

Re: New release of GNU make

2022-09-03 Thread Martin Dorey
instead of make distclean. From: Bug-make on behalf of Paul Smith Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2022 15:56 To: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: New release of GNU make * EXTERNAL EMAIL * Hi all. I would like to work on putting out a new release of GNU make.

New release of GNU make

2022-09-03 Thread Paul Smith
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 (l

Re: Time for a new release...

2021-01-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 14:19 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > A while back there was talk about making Make a bit smarter about > understanding implicit dependencies make-sphere stuff: > > http://gnu-make.2324884.n4.nabble.com/Idea-Add-COMMANDCHANGE-and-CACHE-td19133.html > > I've come to like the id

Re: Time for a new release...

2021-01-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 18:09 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > I'm thinking of putting out a new release of GNU make early in the > new year. Hi all; just an update on this: The company I work for was acquired, so I need to redo my disclaimer with my new benevolent overlords. I've done

[bug #56749] Any chance to make new release?

2019-08-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #56749 (project make): Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: A new release candidate has been publis

[bug #56749] Any chance to make new release?

2019-08-11 Thread David A. Wheeler
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #56749 (project make): I agree. The new "&:" all by itself is worth a new release. Enabling clean compiles on common systems (at least Linux) would be a big improvement. I think having releases more often (say annually) would be better for all, as long a

[bug #56749] Any chance to make new release?

2019-08-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #56749 (project make): I really must agree. At this time the make 4.2.1 release from 6 Jun 2016 will not compile cleanly on modern Linux systems with modern glibc. There are a number of small patches required on different systems and kernel revs however it does seem t

[bug #56749] Any chance to make new release?

2019-08-11 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56749> Summary: Any chance to make new release? Project: make Submitted by: kloczek Submitted on: Sun 11 Aug 2019 04:28:35 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group

Re: Is there a new release anytime soon given that 4.2.1 has multiple issues?

2019-04-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/30/19 9:44 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 16:51 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: So then. New release ? Yes, it's on deck. I know I've said this before. I'm finishing up a huge months-long project at $RealJob. All the major code is finally done and pushed

Re: Is there a new release anytime soon given that 4.2.1 has multiple issues?

2019-04-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 16:51 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > So then. New release ? Yes, it's on deck. I know I've said this before. I'm finishing up a huge months-long project at $RealJob. All the major code is finally done and pushed. This week is filled with graduatio

Is there a new release anytime soon given that 4.2.1 has multiple issues?

2019-04-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
64 hardware reports strange results in the testsuite after some hacks just to get a compile going. So then. New release ? -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ [2] https://savanna

New release 4.2.1 coming soon

2016-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; due to the issue related to double-colon rules I plan to make a 4.2.1 release, probably tonight, containing that fix (which appears to work OK) and a few other cleanups as already committed. If there are other quick-fix things appropriate for a 4.2.1 release let me know. _

New release

2014-08-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Paul, are you planning to make a new release anytime soon? I noticed the version currently in Debian testing still contains some output-sync bugs (e.g. the buggy Makefile "all:; $(foreach" does not produce an error message with "--output-sync", which is fixed in git), so