Re: A possible bug?

[George R Goffe]

Chet,

Thanks for your response.

Is this clone NOT a dev branch? I'm thinking you're saying that it is not.

My objective in using the clone is to get as close to a "release" as 
possible... a beta branch(?) for daily use to identify possible bugs 
(experimental GCC, bash itself, other software that uses bash). Is there a 
"better" branch that I could use for this purpose?

Best regards and "see you next year",

George...
 






On Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 10:10:56 AM PST, Chet Ramey 
<chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote: 





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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/