GNU bug report logs - #72237
diffutils "make dist" not compliant with the GNU Coding Standards

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 19:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 72237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] BSD make
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:38:54 +0200

Collin Funk wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the hint. Indeed, the two directories
  freebsd - src/contrib/bmake
  netbsd  - src/usr.bin/make
appear to be quite similar.

OpenBSD make behaves differently in VPATH builds, as we have recently seen.
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-06/msg00129.html>

Bruno
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