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Re: GNU m4 development
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: GNU m4 development |
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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 21:27:17 +0200 |
Mike Fulton wrote:
> It looks like I should be cloning from branch branch-1.4, and I should be
> using
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/m4.git/
Definitely, yes.
> https://github.com/autotools-mirror/m4.git
Why does Github classify the 'branch-1.4' branch as "stale", not as "active"?
I have no idea.
> For the tarball, which is what I started with, I have been pulling from
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/
> Is that the correct location?
For releases, that's OK. Since you intend to contribute porting fixes, it's
better to work with the snapshot tarballs instead [1][2]; this way, you won't
run into issues that have already been fixed, and you will be consuming your
own fixes, a week after you have upstreamed them.
Bruno
[1] https://gitlab.com/gnu-m4/ci-distcheck
[2]
https://gitlab.com/gnu-m4/ci-distcheck/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/m4-snapshot.tar?job=check-optimized