Update of bug #18517 (project make): Status: None => Later Open/Closed: Open => Closed
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #1: Hi all. The make source code is undergoing some relatively major contortions right now as I wrestle it to an ISO C standard behavior and throw out support for K&R C. Along with this is a change to use the strcache capability I added in the last release, throughout the entire codebase to greatly reduce the amount of memory used by make and hopefully, in some cases at least, increase the efficiency. The changes you see currently in CVS are minor compared to the ones I have locally in my workspace(s). The good news is that this work is almost done and as of last weekend my current version passes all the regression tests again! I'm adding some validation code and checking things with valgrind, etc. but the end appears to be in sight. The bad news is that since I don't have any Windows systems available to me to test on (ditto for VMS, Amiga, etc.) those ports have definitely "rotted" somewhat. I fully expect there will be many instances of this sort of problem, where strings were made constant in the POSIX port but now some love has to be applied in the other ports. I don't think it's really productive to begin this debugging until I've committed all the changes I have locally. In short, at the moment I will have to simply state that the CVS tree is known not to be stable for non-POSIX operating systems. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18517> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make