Hi Paul, > > Building GNU make 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, produces one failing test: > > This is because the glob() function in the older GNU libc has a bug > related to handling symlinks correctly.
Gnulib provides a workaround against this bug in its 'glob' module [1]. But GNU make ships a copy of glob.c from 1999 :-( Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/glob.html
