Re: glibc 2.28 breaks the current m4 release

Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/01/2018 10:26 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> glibc 2.28 was released today. Unfortunately it breaks the build of 
> m4-1.4.18, the current release of GNU m4. This bug was reported some 
> time ago, here:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-03/msg00000.html
> 
> and fixed in Gnulib here:
> 
> https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/4af4a4a71827c0bc5e0ec67af23edef4f15cee8e#diff-5bcce8ce55246264586c4aed2a45ff89 
> 
> 
> so we need a new release of m4 pretty quickly. I can volunteer to do all 
> the necessary changes to cut a new release, except that I suspect that I 
> don't have the bits to actually publish it. Eric?

It's quickly moving up in priority on my list of things to release. 
Thanks for the heads up.

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