Re: GNU Make 4.4 released!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Thomas!

Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> skribis:

> Thus my question: do we/I now just upgrade 'gnu-make' from 4.3 to 4.4, or
> do we maintain 4.3 as default for the time being, and add a separate
> 'gnu-make-4.4' for now -- and what kind of testing does such a change
> need?

Yes.  In ‘master’ you would definitely define ‘gnu-make-4.4’ since
changing the default one would incur a world rebuild.

In ‘core-updates’, where world rebuilds are allowed, we may or may not
default to 4.4, depending on the amount of breakage.

BTW, for immediate use, you can also try:

  guix build make --with-source=mirror://gnu/make/make-4.4.tar.gz

with the understanding that source won’t be authenticated.

Better would be to run:

  guix build make --with-latest=make

… but there’s currently a bug preventing this:
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59168>.

‘--with-source’ and ‘--with-latest’ work with all the tools:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html

HTH,
Ludo’.