Re: [m4] The source code has been broken for years

2021-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
Revisiting an older thread, On 9/12/20 10:15 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > I see now that the home page (https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/) does indeed > inform the user to checkout that particular branch: > > git checkout -b branch-1.4 origin/branch-1.4 > > I had a really old repo in which I ju

Re: [m4] The source code has been broken for years

2020-09-12 Thread Michael Witten
Bruno Haible wrote: > You must be looking on the 'master' branch. Unlike most other git repos, > for GNU m4, the current development takes place on the 'branch-1.4' branch, > not on the 'master' branch: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/branch-1.4 Thanks for

Re: [m4] The source code has been broken for years

2020-09-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Michael Witten wrote: > It appears that for years, m4's source code has been broken; > > * The last commit to the git repo was this: > > commit d69fa5284851b2b7aac25ffac638b6b379994db5 > AuthorDate: Sat Dec 31 14:56:15 2016 -0600 > CommitDate: Mon Jan 9 13:55:30 2017 -0600 Yo

[m4] The source code has been broken for years

2020-09-12 Thread Michael Witten
It appears that for years, m4's source code has been broken; Bruno Haible reported this earlir in the year. * The last commit to the git repo was this: commit d69fa5284851b2b7aac25ffac638b6b379994db5 AuthorDate: Sat Dec 31 14:56:15 2016 -0600 CommitDate: Mon Jan 9 13:55:30 201