Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/2/19 4:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > On 9/2/19 12:28 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 18:20 +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > > > is this intended to build on macOS using clang, or using gcc only?
> > >
> > > It should work with any C compiler that supports the C89 standard.
> >
> > I was looking for this sort of answer before.  I have been doing testing
> > with std=iso9899:1999 and so that is wrong.
>
> Say what? I'm sure GNU Make is also designed to work with C99, with C11, 
> with C18, and with C2x whenever it comes out.

I ran into this problem with the pre-release OpenSSL 1.1.1 code last[1]
year wherein I was doing testing with strict iso9899:1999 and found out
from Rich Salz that the codebase is strictly C89 only.  Given the range
of systems the OpenSSL project has to support I understand that. Here
with GNU Make we may face the same problem and so I am wondering what is
the actual dialect to adher to.



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[1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/8048