GNU bug report logs - #38714
'make dist' fails on grep master (Fedora 31)

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 01:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38714: closed ('make dist' fails on grep master (Fedora 31))
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:26:01 +0000

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: GNU grep bug reports <bug-grep <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 'make dist' fails on grep master (Fedora 31)
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:35:03 -0800

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I think it has something to do with Fedora 31 using GNU Make 4.2.1, which uses a
different output format when debugging. Log of failure is attached.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 38714-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, GNU grep developers <grep-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.31-fe6c
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:25:39 -0700

On 9/21/20 12:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> I ran into that problem in July or so and took the easy
> way out: I built the latest from git and installed that early in my
> shell's search path (on Fedora 32). Now make --version reports I'm
> using 4.3.90.

Ah, OK, good enough. I'm closing the bug report then, as it's OK to require the 
latest tools to run 'make dist'.
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