Re: Regression bug in GNU Make 3.82

On 2014-06-24 12:58, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> GNU Make 3.82 introduced a regression [1][2] in the parsing of archive
> libraries.  This was fixed with commits 5acda13 [3] and b06b8c6 [4] in
> Make 4.0.
> 
> The regression is causing dev86, a build dependency of LILO, to fail to
> build.
> 
> We can either prepare and apply a patch to Make 3.82 or update the gmake
> package to 4.0.  Do you want to do this?  Or should I do it?
> 
> [1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30612
> [2]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30897
> [3]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=5acda13
> [4]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=b06b8c6

I updated gmake to the new upstream version and added myself to the
package's maintainers list.  The changes are in pkg/gmake.git and gmake
4.0-1 is currently in the package archive's incoming queue.

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