[gnu.utils.bug] Looking for a version of GNU Make more recent than 3.05

mdb@silvlis.com (Mark D. Baushke) (10/22/88)

Andrew Schorr <beareq!schorr@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> writes:
>  I am running version 3.13 of GNU Make.

Richard Mlynarik <mly@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> writes:
>  BTW, /wheaties/usr/gnubin contains the following versions -- somebody
>  should clean up old, unused `make's.  How do I determine the version
>  of `make' I am running?
>  
>  -rwxrwxrwx  1 hack      wheel      204111 Oct 18 14:57 /usr/gnubin/make
>  -rwxrwxrwx  1 rms       wheel      192658 Sep  6 15:59 /usr/gnubin/make-3.05
>  -rwxrwxrwx  1 rms       wheel      202209 Oct 10 08:03 /usr/gnubin/make-3.12

To answer Richard's question, use ``make -v'' to get the version
information.

I am currently using GNU Make 2.9 since I could not get GNU Make 3.05
to work without generating a ``virtual memory exhausted'' error
message.

I am having trouble with GNU Make 2.9 and would like to go to a more
recent version.

Could someone arrange to put the latest-and-greatest on prep in /u/emacs ?

I am not able to directly FTP it from there, but I have a friend who
has agreed to help get it from there. (Or if someone has taken the
time to generate a make.diff-3.05-3.xx (where xx is the latest version
number).

Thanks in advance,

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mcgrath%homer.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath) (10/22/88)

Version 3.05 was the last version released.  There will be another release
soon.

The bug report for version 3.13 came from someone at MIT, where prerelease
versions are tested by GNU people.

For those of you reading this as a newsgroup, I would like to request that
you refrain from general discussion here and use it only to report bugs in
GNU utilities that do not have their own mailing lists (those other than
Emacs, GCC, G++, GDB, GDB+, and GNUS).

I will answer questions about Make promptly and accurately, and noone has
better information that I since I am the one maintaining the program.


Thank you,
Roland McGrath