Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-03 Thread Collin Funk
Hi Eric, Eric Blake writes: > I would love some assistance in the effort, even if it is as simple as > curating a list of ALL commits to branch-1.4 and branch-1.6 since the > two REALLY diverged (warning: back then, I was not using 'git > cherry-pick -x' to identify when a patch was applied to o

Re: Perhaps it is time for a beta release of ver 1.6 ?

2025-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:35:36PM -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for the GNU m4 macro processor wrote: > > This has already been reported and it is known that the m4-1.4.19 will > no longer build out of the box on a recent Linux machine. Certainly not > with any recent GCC and perfectly sa

bug formatting a .h function extern declaration with attribute macros

2025-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
I'm trying to run indent on the GNU M4 source code base before a release (it looks like gnulib added the ability to run make indent since the last time I made an m4 release). But one change that indent is insisting on is wrong: -extern void m4_error (int, int, const char *, ...) - ATTRIBUTE_COLD