Re: New release of GNU make

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 14:00 +0100, Sam James wrote:
> > Very preliminary results (only mild testing done so far)
> > but the only failure I've hit thus far is autoconf-2.71:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/869257.
> > 
> > I'll continue testing.
> 
> It's been very quiet indeed, which is good news.

That is good news, thank you.

I'm going to make one final push this weekend to try to get the signal
handling / termination code working the way I want it.  Regardless of
whether I succeed or not I intend to package an RC1 release no later
than Monday.

I have a few other bugs reported with patches on Savannah that I will
at least investigate, as well.

In order to give the translators etc. time to work on it, as well as
allow for some more soak time with other testers who may not want to
build from Git, I will allow at least 2 weeks of test time for the
release candidate cycle.

That would put the release sometime in early October, unless issues are
found that push things out.