Package: make
Version: 3.80-9
Severity: minor
In the shell (tested with bash and zsh), ~/foo expands to
/home/andrew/foo whether or not this file exists. In make, it expands
only when the file exists; otherwise, it "expands" to the empty string.
Here is an example:
% echo ~/foo
/home/andrew/foo
% ls ~/foo
ls: /home/andrew/foo: No such file or directory
% cat > Makefile
all:
true $(wildcard ~/foo)
% make
true
% touch foo
% make
true /home/andrew/foo
This consistency seems gratuitous and unintuitive, so I believe it
should be fixed to behave like the shell. If it is not fixed, it should
be documented.
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages make depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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