Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.31-fe6c

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/20 9:23 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Here's another snapshot.
>
> In reviewing grep bug reports I noticed this one:
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/38714
>
> which reported that I can't run "make dist" on Fedora 31, I guessed because
> Fedora 31 uses GNU Make 4.2.1 (make-4.2.1-15.fc31.x86_64). If you're creating
> snapshots successfully I guess you must not be running into that bug. Is this
> because you're using a later version of GNU Make, or an earlier one, or 
> because
> that bug report is wrong?

Hi Paul,
Good catch. I ran into that problem in July or so and took the easy
way out: I built the latest from git and installed that early in my
shell's search path (on Fedora 32). Now make --version reports I'm
using 4.3.90.