Re: GNU make 4.0.90 prerelease available

[Denis Excoffier]

On 2014-10-01 17:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:56:47 -0400
>> 
>> The first pre-release GNU make 4.0 is available on the alpha FTP site
>> (or via HTTP):
>> 
>> 6df6ca5791437cd3212c21872ddc29cb  
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.0.90.tar.gz
>> 6df10668d06f9a2ef152995bd5b577e4  
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.0.90.tar.bz2
>> 
>> This release is mainly bug fixes.
> 
> Looks good on MS-Windows (I fixed a few minor issues, most of them
> specific to the MS-Windows build).
> 
> 
For me, under Cygwin, i had to apply the following in order to compile (GCC 
4.9.1):

diff -uNrp make-4.0.90-original/job.c make-4.0.90-patched/job.c
--- make-4.0.90-original/job.c  2014-09-30 14:18:39.000000000 +0200
+++ make-4.0.90-patched/job.c   2014-10-01 19:42:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -2694,7 +2694,7 @@ construct_command_argv_internal (char *l
   /* This is required if the MSYS/Cygwin ports (which do not define
      WINDOWS32) are compiled with HAVE_DOS_PATHS defined, which uses
      sh_chars_sh directly (see below).  */
-  static const char *sh_chars_sh = sh_chars;
+  const char *sh_chars_sh = sh_chars;
 # endif  /* HAVE_DOS_PATHS */
 #endif
   int i;


Regards,

Denis Excoffier.