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Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
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Update make 4.2 -> 4.3 #34

Closed HuangShumin closed 1 year ago

HuangShumin commented 1 year ago

request to update make version

skeeto commented 1 year ago

Upgrading requires updating the hash as well. I just pushed a branch that does this, make-4.3 (currently 2c1946f). Cross compilation is broken in GNU Make 4.2, so I had a hack to fix it (-Iglob). That seems to be fixed, so the hack should be removed, too.

Unfortunately GNU Make 4.3 is incompatible with Mingw-w64, so this still does not work. Otherwise I would have done it already. This version makes assumptions about fcntl() and dirent that don't hold in Mingw-w64, and so the build fails. (See my notes in the commit.) It would probably take substantial patching to fix.

It's quite possible that w64devkit will forever have GNU Make 4.2. "The devil you know" and all that. It's a feature-complete mature program, and there is practically no innovation happening in this space. The only significant future improvements would be better Windows support (e.g. learning how to deal with PowerShell for SHELL, and its limitations). More likely I'd replace it altogether with a different make that has reasonable GNU Make compatibility, enough to work with existing, real world GNU Makefiles (in Vim, Putty, zlib, etc.).

skeeto commented 1 year ago

GNU Make 4.4 recently came out, and this version seems to work well on Windows, so I've merged it as 1000d8e. (The new --shuffle feature is intriguing.)