[OpenIndiana-discuss] gmake-3.82

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 07:28 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> I was trying to compile Mozilla Firefox with GCC recently and came across a
> funny macro bug of sorts ... probably just a bad file, but I spent a little
> time looking for it ...
>
> anyway, I noticed that I wasn't using the latest, greatest version of gmake
> (installed was gmake-3.81 from 2006) and a newer version exists (gmake-3.82
> from 2010)
>
> I compiled it, and installed out of tree, and managed to get Mozilla to go
> a long time past the bug in the Makefile ...
>
> the question I have is; is there a particular reason that we don't have the
> latest version of gmake in our packages?  I know that they changed the
> license to GPL3, does that make a significant change for us over compiled
> objects?
>

GLPv3 will not affect compiled objects. Just gmake itself and anything 
that links with it at compile time.

I think it is mainly a matter of maintenance.