Re: GNU make release candidate 4.1.90 available for download

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 10:01 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Isn't it also true that the ABI for loaded modules has changed in this
> version?  I see that the gmk_floc object now has a new member
> 'offset'.  Should this be called out in NEWS?

You're right.  I reverted this change (or rather, I modified things so
that the gmk_floc type is the same as it was before and is only used by
the loadable object API, and that the rest of make uses a different type
which has the extra member).  I feel that there's no need to have the
offset member visible through the loadable object API.

> If the new ABI is incompatible with the old one, we should bump the
> number of the import library we produce for MS-Windows, so it will now
> be libgnumake-2.dll.

Is there any concept of "compatible ABI" with DLLs in Windows?  Sort of
like the UNIX major and minor .so versions?

> I needed a few changes in the test suite, to get it to reports as few
> bogus failures as possible, as expected.  Here are the most prominent
> issues:

I see that you didn't push any fixes for these issues.  Do you plan to
do that or should I look into it?  If you don't want to push the changes
as-is (maybe they work on Windows but are not portable) you can send me
a diff of the changes you made and I can look at them.