Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Bug#756123: chained implicit rule can fail to
make a prerequisite [and 1 more messages]"):
> In that case, I shall forward this bug report upstream, to see
> if we can get help in identifying the patch that fixed the issue (there
> ight not be a simpe set of commits that I might be able to backport,
> though). Even if we do find the fixes, we would still need to talk to
> the SRM team to see if this can be backported into stable.
Right. I am prepared to try to properly debug this in 3.81, but I
haven't ever looked at the code inside make so I would need some help
for that to be a viable strategy.
I could also bisect if there's a bisectable git history somewhere.
> I am traveling until Friday, and so will deal with this when I
> get back.
Thanks. To be honest, while this bug seems pretty strange, I doubt it
can be very critical in the grand scheme of things. From the point of
view of a stable update, it might be better to leave everyone with the
bugs they have rather than try to patch this - unless the fix is very
very obviously correct.
So I won't be upset if you don't want to put more effort into this
bug.
Regards,
Ian.
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