On 28 June 2014 10:32, Bill Westfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, this appears to be http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34806, which claims > to have been fixed back in 2011. > > It's unfortunate that "everybody" still seems to be "shipping" 3.81 > (is there a reason that everyone is still shipping 3.81? I mean: Atmel > Studio 6.2, Unbuntu 14, Mint 17, Debian 7.5, OpenSuse - all are installing > 3.81 from 2006!)
Ok, but that's "everybody" else's doing, not make's, so you should contact them :) In case you are not aware, using a different version is quite trivial. Just get another version from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ and build it. It's only dependency is the standard libc library, so you do not need to install make. Just create a directory somewhere, build a make executable in that directory, and run it instead. For example: cd /directory/you/choose wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.0.tar.gz tar xzf make-4.0.tar.gz cd make-4.0 ./configure make # this uses the old make to build the new When finished, to use the new make just run the full pathname to it in the directory where you built it: /directory/you/choose/make-4.0/make _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
