Re: GNU Make 4.4 released!

Re: GNU Make 4.4 released!

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

GNU Make 4.4 has recently been released, see
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-10/msg00008.html>,
which I'd like to get available in Guix.

In Guix master branch, 'gnu/packages/base.scm', 'define-public gnu-make',
I see 'version "4.3"', last updated from 'version "4.2.1"' by Marius
(CCed) in 2020-01-21 commit cdba91486a60bbba727d843707322f98f8286124
"gnu: make: Update to 4.3".

In 2020-03-28 commit 5fd0c288cf238e4369cc6bd0bfbee068a362a9f0
"gnu: OpenJDK: Build with GNU Make 4.2", Marius added a
'define-public gnu-make-4.2', because -- as I understand -- for certain
packages there have been issues with 4.3.

Thus my question: do we/I now just upgrade 'gnu-make' from 4.3 to 4.4, or
do we maintain 4.3 as default for the time being, and add a separate
'gnu-make-4.4' for now -- and what kind of testing does such a change
need?

I have not yet looked at the 4.3..4.4 source code differences to try
spotting any new things creep in that need special handling.


Grüße
 Thomas
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Re: GNU Make 4.4 released!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Thomas!

Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> skribis:

> Thus my question: do we/I now just upgrade 'gnu-make' from 4.3 to 4.4, or
> do we maintain 4.3 as default for the time being, and add a separate
> 'gnu-make-4.4' for now -- and what kind of testing does such a change
> need?

Yes.  In ‘master’ you would definitely define ‘gnu-make-4.4’ since
changing the default one would incur a world rebuild.

In ‘core-updates’, where world rebuilds are allowed, we may or may not
default to 4.4, depending on the amount of breakage.

BTW, for immediate use, you can also try:

  guix build make --with-source=mirror://gnu/make/make-4.4.tar.gz

with the understanding that source won’t be authenticated.

Better would be to run:

  guix build make --with-latest=make

… but there’s currently a bug preventing this:
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59168>.

‘--with-source’ and ‘--with-latest’ work with all the tools:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html

HTH,
Ludo’.