Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:00:13 -0400, Paul Smith <address@hidden> said:

    Paul>     
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    Paul>     GNU make is a tool which controls the generation of executables 
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    Paul>     other non-source files of a program from the program's source 
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    Paul>     You can learn more at: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
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    Paul> A new release candidate for GNU make 4.3 is available now for 
download:

    Paul>     36083ab822b50a9ecbf5467cdadff55c  make-4.2.90.tar.bz2
    Paul>     e2c9abdeaf3725f8654a5e9d7a121fa9  make-4.2.90.tar.gz

    Paul> You can obtain a copy from:  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/

Hi Paul,

is this intended to build on macOS using clang, or using gcc only?

$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

$ make
Making all in lib
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in po
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in doc
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
depbase=`echo src/ar.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
        gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -Isrc -I./src -Ilib -I./lib 
-DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"  -DMAKE_MAINTAINER_MODE 
-I/usr/local/include  -C -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wwrite-strings -Wshadow 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wbad-function-cast -Wformat-security 
-Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wlogical-op -Wpointer-arith 
-Wignored-qualifiers -Wformat-signedness -Wduplicated-cond -g -O2 -MT src/ar.o 
-MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/ar.o src/ar.c &&\
        mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
clang: error: invalid argument '-C' only allowed with '-E'
make[1]: *** [src/ar.o] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1