On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote: > Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> writes: > > > FWIW, on OS X.9, the venerable make 3.81 is installed natively and does not > > seem to cause much grief, despite its age. > > That's good to hear. Why do they refuse to ship a make that is less > than 8 years old?
Our linux compute machines [ubuntu 12.04] is also has 3.81 Fedora Linux is still at 3.82 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=813 Per https://ia601008.us.archive.org/7/items/OhioLinuxfest2013/24-Rob_Landley-The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Copyleft.mp3 Apple doesn't want touch GPL3 code [hence froze gcc at 4.2 and started investing in clang]. But this issue doesn't exist for gnumake. [I see its GPL2+] Satish
