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    SubjectRe: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest))
    David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote:

    > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:47:58PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
    > > David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote:
    > >
    > > > > Uhm, the version of GNU make in Debian (3.81beta4) was released
    > > > > 12 December 2005; I wouldn't call that dead (or unmaintained).
    > > >
    > > > Oh, and as an update, 3.81rc1 was release on the 19th of February 2006.
    > > >
    > > > Yeah, very unmaintained and dead upstream...
    > >
    > > None of the bugs I did report has been fixed.
    >
    > Well, the bug you complain most about is about spewing of some
    > warnings for something completely harmless. I know of another
    > certain set of software that spews unnecessary and annoying
    > warnings. Those haven't been removed for despite complaints for
    > several years either. Does this mean that cdrecord is an unmaintained
    > piece of software that's dead upstream?

    If you do not understand the diffeence between a useful warning (as with
    cdrecord) and a warning that is a result of a severe bug caused by incorrect
    make file handling (as in GNU make) you are obviously wrong here.

    Jörg

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