On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 06:36 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is definitely not right. GNU make 4.0's behavior is correct. > > Yes I understand that. My question was whether this was: > > 1) an intentional bugfix for 4.0, or > > 2) something good that occurred out of code cleanup or such so which > is expected to continue in future versions, or > > 3) a serendipitous occurrence in which case effort needs to be taken > to ensure that it continues in future versions.
I don't know the answer to that. It doesn't ring any bells but 3.81 was released 8 years ago. You can try spelunking in the ChangeLog or the Savannah bug list, and/or use git bisect or something to find out exactly when it was fixed, and/or see if the incorrect behavior is covered by the current regression test suite. All I can say for sure is that the current behavior is correct and if it changed back to the old behavior that would be a regression and would need to be fixed. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
