On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 13:24 +0000, Edward Welbourne wrote: >> This does seem like an unsound choice, for the reasons David gave, Paul Smith replied: > Perhaps but as discussed, it's been that way in GNU make (and other > versions of make) forever and is required by the POSIX standard. So > we'll just have to live with it.
Indeed; some unsound choices get tenure, Eddy. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make