Oddness with intermediate files / .INTERMEDIATE

2021-12-29 Thread Paul Smith
While looking through some old bugs in Savannah and trying to reproduce them I ran across this change in behavior between GNU make 4.3 and current Git master HEAD: $ cat Makefile 1.all: 1.q ; touch $@ %.q: 1.r ; touch $@ %.r: ; touch $@ Note here, 1.r is mentioned explicitly in the

[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

2021-12-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #29, bug #48643 (project make): Thanks Dmitry. I applied these patches. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Savannah

Re: escaped newline in macro expansion in command line

2021-12-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 23:30 +, Humm wrote: > (woops, sorry for replying off-list first; mutt doesn’t like me) > > Quoth Paul Smith: > > In your example the backslash is part of a variable expansion: it's > > INSIDE the variable expansion so it will be handled by make as part > > of expanding