[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-14 Thread albert
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #58364 (project make): I agree that it is unfortunate and these things can happen. The "breaking change" was due to the extra number of output lines (and for CMake) with a different syntax and might break automatic scripts. I also think that CMake is widely used but

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-14 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #58364 (project make): It is unfortunate, but the change (don't allow .SILENT to be passed down to submakes) was not understood to have this side-effect for --no-print-directory until after the release; I've not received any reports from anyone about this as an issue

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-14 Thread albert
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #58364 (project make): It is indeed hard to communicate the breaking change to the users / community when it is not in the initial NEWS file. I don't think there isn't a lot that can be done. The current way it is in the, to be released, NEWS file is in my opinion not

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #58364 (project make): The current master HEAD version of the Tiny C text says: * GNU Make can now be built for MS-Windows using the Tiny C tcc compiler. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread Martin Dorey
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58364 (project make): Perhaps it wasn't apparent to albert that it's in the NEWS file now, ready for the next release, as of: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/NEWS?id=660a2eafe52b8fad0dbee8ccddb990015dc68b54 Editing the NEWS file in the previous

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #58364 (project make): Status: Not A Bug => Duplicate ___ Follow-up Comment #3: The CMake issue was fixed in CMake 3.16.6: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/20487

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread albert
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58364 (project make): The background of the problem is actually that in cmake now, by default, also the Entering / Leaving messages appear. In the past they were automatically suppressed. People using CMake can also set the MAKEFLAGS environment variable, but it would

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #58364 (project make): Status:None => Not A Bug Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: This is due to this

[bug #58364] Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1

2020-05-13 Thread albert
URL: Summary: Inconsistent behavior between 4.3 and 4.2.1 Project: make Submitted by: albert_2 Submitted on: Wed 13 May 2020 02:12:34 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item