Chet, Thanks for your response.
Is this clone NOT a dev branch? I'm thinking you're saying that it is not. My objective in using the clone is to get as close to a "release" as possible... a beta branch(?) for daily use to identify possible bugs (experimental GCC, bash itself, other software that uses bash). Is there a "better" branch that I could use for this purpose? Best regards and "see you next year", George... On Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 10:10:56 AM PST, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: On 12/26/23 1:06 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm building bash with the bash at " git clone > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git" and am seeing the following > messages: > > make depend > bash ./support/mkdep -c gcc -- -DPROGRAM='"bash"' The make depend support is only intended for the devel branch; the releases should have complete dependencies included. If they don't, it's a bug. The idea is to have as few dependencies (no pun intended) in the releases as possible. I suppose I could make the depend target conditional on the release status, but I've never done it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/