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Q: Gnu Make 4.4 on Ubuntu LTS (22.04 and 20.04) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bahmanm@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm working on a hobby project of mine which requires Gnu Make 4.4. I am now trying to setup the project's Travis pipeline on github. Travis, understandably, only offers LTS Ubuntu images and sadly Gnu Make 4.4 is not available on those images.

Is there any way, compiling from the sources aside, to install the said version on an Ubuntu image? Something like a PPA?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You'd just use the container for testing other Make versions. If your users use Ubuntu, run your tests with an Ubuntu docker image. You can run several versions that way with minimal effort.

I don't know much about Travis, but it's pretty easy to set that up with Jenkins.

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's pretty much what I ended up doing. Install Gnu Make 4.4 as part of the pipeline. I then added a check to warn the user if the Make version they use is not supported.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm saying you'd support older versions of make in your project and use docker images in your CIb pipeline to test each of those supported versions. If you're not using any 4.4-specific features, 4.2 (20.04) and 4.3 (22.04) would probably work. So you'd have a docker container for every OS that you're officially supporting (or at least every version of make that supported OSes use).

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I see your point. Though the main thing, as I mentioned in the question, is that I'm using features from 4.4 so that strategy wouldn't work for me.