[arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-2

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 24 May 2011 16:26:11 -0500
> schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Am Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:10:16 -0600
>> > schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>> >> It rests in [testing] because it is totally broken with handling
>> >> MAKEFLAGS, and upstream is totally unresponsive. Allan isn't
>> >> looking for signoffs...
>> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?107487
>> >>
>> >
>> > Things are getting worse. New LibreOffice 3.4 will require make
>> > 3.82 to compile. I can do this in testing chroots when there's no
>> > other .so related stuff though.
>> >
>> > So far I've only seen the kernel compiling non-multithreaded.
>> Did you read the bug report, by chance? I was able to make it 100%
>> reproducible compiling git.
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?107487#comment0
>
> Fedora keeps applying that patch in 3.82 - could this solve your
> test case? Gentoo has dropped it seems.
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=make.git;a=blob;f=make-3.82-jobserver.patch;h=2a855031dd0633a677131870d008e3131b96fc01;hb=master

I don't think so, unfortunately. That patch has been around since 3.81
which is known-working for this particular bug, and the code it is
dealing with looks like not the stuff Allan and I were digging around
in for a bit.

-Dan