On October 1, 2022 1:03 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >With the upcoming release (4.4) I intend to announce that I'll be removing >support >for the following platforms in the next, post-4.4 >release: > > - OS/2 (EMX) > - Amiga > - Native MS-DOS > >For the first two, I suspect that whatever support we currently have is broken >and >it's not really possible to build GNU make, even today, for those platforms. I >haven't received any input from anyone using those platforms in years and it's >hard for me to believe that, with all the changes, everything still "just >works". > >I'm less sure about native MS-DOS. Maybe someone still uses this? > >If anyone thinks that any of these should be preserved and I should not >announce >deprecation for them, let me know. > >Obviously, versions of GNU make up to and including the upcoming 4.4 would >still >be available for those platforms (if they work). > >This would leave us with the following supported platforms, post 4.4: > > - POSIX-based systems > - Windows > - VMS > >For VMS I haven't heard from anyone about it this release cycle so I don't >really >know what the status is, but it was actively supported in GNU make 4.3.
The ITUGLIB project team maintains a port of GNU Make for currently supported HPE NonStop Guardian platforms. We do intend to port 4.4 when it is released. I am the official maintainer on the team, at present. The HPE NonStop OSS (POSIX-compatible) platform port is maintained by HPE Development as part of their "coreutils" project. The latter's port tends to lag behind our port. Regards, Randall Becker
