Request for a release

[hannob]

It appears to me the last release of vixie-cron is a very old one from 2004, unlikely to compile in a modern environment, but new development has happened in this repo.

Would you consider making a new release that works on modern systems?

[vixie]

Yes! Tell me what systems you mean and I will make from portable to those systems. I'm not sure any distro other than openbsd will import a new version but we should still seem broad portability. p vixie

[hannob]

Personally I use Gentoo, so that's probably Linux.

I may look into packaging it for Gentoo, because I'm kinda unhappy with the reliability of existing cron options, but no promises.

[vixie]

ok so the tip of the master branch builds correctly on opensuse leap. please send me your "make" output?

[hannob]

make output:

cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o cron.o cron.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o database.o database.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o user.o user.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o entry.o entry.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o job.o job.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o do_command.o do_command.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o misc.o misc.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o env.o env.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o popen.o popen.c
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o pw_dup.o pw_dup.c
cc  -o cron cron.o database.o user.o entry.o job.o do_command.o misc.o env.o popen.o pw_dup.o 
cc -g -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I.    -c -o crontab.o crontab.c
cc  -o crontab crontab.o misc.o entry.o env.o pw_dup.o 

This looks fine.