Re: Failed compile on Fedora 28, x86_64

[Mike Gran]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:06:24PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm working on Fedora 28, x86_64 (fully patched). I'm building 4.2.1
> from the tarball.
> 
> I *thought* we are supposed to avoid alloca in 2018. I guess this is
> another reason why.

First, I am not a make maintainer.

You can see the patches that Fedora 28 applies to Make 4.2.1 to have
it build on its Koji page.  There are several patches.

Koji page
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=12659817

Source RPM with patches
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/make/4.2.1/6.fc28/src/make-4.2.1-6.fc28.src.rpm

Alternately, you can get vanilla make 4.2.1 to build from source by
running ./configure CFLAGS="-D__alloca=alloca"

Regards,
Mike Gran