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

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
> I think there's a better way to handle this than the one you suggest Let's not blame Sam for my patch, with its gruesome returning, and hence presumably exporting, of some strdup()d boilerplate to stop the caller from crashing. > why does this prevent doing any more testing? I expect he

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