Re: GNU make release candidate 4.1.90 available for download

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sun, 1 May 2016 17:44:12 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Smith wrote:
> Of course, it's possible that the gnulib versions no longer support C89.

Yes, that's right, Gnulib stopped supporting K&R in 2003. For getopt the
relevant commit is 6d2408b771040e07ec34443db9c61e48e1f00db7 dated 2003-09-09. It
hasn't been a problem in practice.