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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Does anyone know the story behind the '<font
face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">make</font>' battle
between Steven Schilly and the maintainers of GNU Make? <br>
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I build from source. <br>
One of the packages in the "occasionally re-run" list is the
CDRECORD package. (the old one) <br>
There are several times in the process when a loud message is
displayed "these errors are because GNU Make maintainers didn't
listen to me about a bug in their shit". (Paraphrased, and
expletive added by me.) I've never understood the why and
wherefore, and CDRECORD always builds and runs just fine. Further,
even though GNU Make is sometimes quirky, I can alternate between
3.79.1 and 3.8x or higher and work around any weirdness. <br>
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I guess one reason I'm more curious is that I find myself recently
at odds with the maintainers of a different well-known GNU
package. If Mr. Shcilly was just being a stick-in-the-mud, I want
to somehow be ... umm ... not. (I don't want to be an ass when
pressing for whatever fix-up seems to be urgent.) Sometimes
nit-picky details which only handful of people care about can be
important down the road. And sometimes nit-picky details which
only a handful of people care about are not significant. <br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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