Re: Critical gawk -M bug still in Debian 11

[alexandre . ferrieux]

On 14/02/2024 12:43, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Interestingly, when I recompiile 5.1.0 from the tarball, I get the bad
> results. I don't know why.

One thing I've noticed is the stuff with wrong file dates ending up un 
aclocal/automake nightmares. A few times in the past I've forgotten to "make 
distclean ; ./bootstrap.sh" before recompiling a new commit ... and sometimes 
the existing object files managed to build an executable which is a random hybrid.

Once bitten twice shy -> this time I did not forget, and the results were 
consistent and reproducible - otherwise "git bisect" would have gone off road :)

> My "release notes" as such are in the NEWS file. Looking at it now, there is
> nothing to call attention to the particular MPFR issue.  I tend to focus
> on changes in behavior, and not on the bugs fixed.

Okay. I've just emailed the Debian maintainer, Adrian Bunk. I do not know how 
hard the backport would be (maybe some dependencies have issues); will report 
here about his response.


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