revision 14457: make 3.79 ok, 3.80 unhappy

[Jason Schoon]

Works great on my previously non-working Slackware with vanilla 3.80. 
Thanks Bernhard.

On 3/7/06, Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop at aon.at> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 10:51 am, Jason Schoon wrote:
> >> Bernhard is taking care of it from the sounds of it, but I would throw in
> >> my $.02 that 3.80 absolutely has to work.  It is currently the latest
> >> released version of make, and is over 3 years old.  So, anyone not willing
> >> to use a beta or find appropriate patches is very likely to be using it.
> >
> >Agreed.
>
> nod.
>
> The attached patch does revert using several features which didn't work
> with older (than 3.81-rc1) versions of make.
> It was tersely tested with:
> - make-3.80 vanilly
> - make-3.80 from ubuntu
> - make-3.79.1 redhat9 flavour
>
> I plan to also test with more current versions before sending the
> "final" version of that repair.
>
> If this patch does break right now for anybody with make-3.79.1 or
> make-3.80, then please let me know, TIA.
> >
> >I grabbed last night's snapshot and fed it into RH9.  I had to disable
> >e2fsprogs to get it to build (couldn't find blkid, I think.  I'm assuming
>
> I also added a workaround to please make-3.79.1 from redhat9, fwiw. RH9
> ain't supported by redhat anymore... whatever ;)
>
> >this is related to the "fixme").  But everything else seems to have built.
> >
> >(And it's 1086060 bytes _without_ e2fsprogs.  Eeek!  We are definitely taking
> >advantage of the new compiler...)
>
> Indeed. :)
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