Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#72237: diffutils "make dist" not compliant with the GNU Coding Standards

From: Collin Funk <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:57:18 -0700

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible <[email-masked]> writes:

> The attached patch fixes it. Tested also with VPATH builds, with
>   - GNU make,
>   - FreeBSD make,
>   - NetBSD make.

To save you time in the future testing either FreeBSD or NetBSD make
should be enough. A portable version of NetBSD make is maintained and
that one is used by FreeBSD [1] [2]. OpenBSD seems to have made their
own changes and maintained it themselves since the operating system was
forked from NetBSD.

Also, 'bmake' is packaged in Debian and Fedora at least. You can
probably build the latest version on your host system for testing.

Collin

[1] https://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html
[2] https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/