On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 13:24 +, Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> This does seem like an unsound choice, for the reasons David gave,
Paul Smith replied:
> Perhaps but as discussed, it's been that way in GNU make (and other
> versions of make) forever and is required by the POSIX standard. So
> we'll
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49183 (project make):
The current POSIX standard is available online for free and has been for many
years now: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
The change seems pretty innocuous to me. The number of people who set the
MAKEFLAGS variable in their local
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #49183 (project make):
POSIX or not...that should not add further confusion, by altering a
long-establish behaviour of GNU make.
BUG? Not really.
But if POSIX will to implement their own MAKE, maybe they can follow their own
rules, but meanwhile, they still charge an
