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
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? That issue needs to be carefully considered. In the previou

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