Re: GNU make 4.2.93 release candidate available

[Dennis Clarke]

On 2020-01-05 16:20, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 02:42 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > A new release candidate for GNU make 4.3 is available now for download:
> >
> >      6b252188079b36d13e96d5527f8ca033  make-4.2.93.tar.lz
> >      929d4d3a216c02d0d86eb379356f4d1c  make-4.2.93.tar.gz
> >
> > You can obtain a copy from:  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/
>
> Unless something drastic changes this will be the final release candidate
> for GNU make 4.3 and I plan to make the official release sometime this
> week, perhaps Wednesday or Thursday.
>
> If you want to test before the 4.3 release, please do so in the next few
> days.  Or if there's a problem let me know.

Works neatly on ye old Solaris 10 sparcv9 with the Oracle C99 12.6 
compiler and insanely strict CFLAGS. Even tossed in POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
at this.

The only nit, and it is a little nit, is the strange use of a three
parameter main() in src/main.c line 1054 and this is a "warning". Well
strictly speaking, pun intended, that isn't a terrible sin but it isn't
correct either. Sure, tossing in char **envp as the third rail on the
main() can work and usually does work it isn't supposed to work.

I looked in there and there is no good reason to not use getenv() but
who knows what voodoo to do in windows32?  I surely don't.

Looks like a good release after all these tests and years. Awesome.


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