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Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:41:33 -0400
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On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:29 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>    This seems to be due to a subtle bug/misfeature in the GNU linker:
>    it doesn't grok backslashes in file names in response files.  I
>    needed to introduce a special variable to give each linker its
>    preferred flavor of slashes.

Can we just use forward slashes everywhere?  Or will Visual Studio not
work with them?  If they work that would be my preference, rather than
adding another variable.

> 2. Several compilation warnings (I can post the actual messages if
> needed).
> 
> The patches for the problems I found are below.  Paul, if they are OK
> with you, I will push them.  One issue we should probably talk about
> is the UMASK gork: it isn't really working, as GCC emits warnings for
> its use anyway ("statement with no effect" and "unused variable").  I
> think the code should simply invoke 'umask' conditionally, and we
> should lose the UMASK macro.

The rest of the changes look fine to me.




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