Is there a new release anytime soon given that 4.2.1 has multiple issues?

[Dennis Clarke]

I think this has been covered over and over and with little reply or
progress. The main page for GNU Make[1] says little and the development
page[2] says "Latest News"[3] is 4.2.1.

The 4.2.1 release simply won't build out-of-the-box on any modern linux
with up to date glibc anymore. My approach[4] was to patch configure.ac
and then try to get around the problems in glob.c with some elegance.

The "Linux From Scratch" people merely say "nuke it out of orbit"[5]
with an outright delete of a bunch of lines therein. Regardless Debian
sid on bone stock x86_64 hardware reports strange results in the
testsuite after some hacks just to get a compile going.

So then.  New release ?

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Dennis Clarke
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[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/

[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/

[3] https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8572

[4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2019-01/msg00002.html

[5] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/make.html