Re: A possible bug?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/26/23 1:06 PM, George R Goffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building bash with the bash at " git clone 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git"; and am seeing the following messages:
>
> make depend
> bash ./support/mkdep -c gcc --  -DPROGRAM='"bash"' 

The make depend support is only intended for the devel branch; the releases
should have complete dependencies included. If they don't, it's a bug. The
idea is to have as few dependencies (no pun intended) in the releases as
possible. I suppose I could make the depend target conditional on the
release status, but I've never done it.

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