Updated: make-4.1-1

[Marco Atzeri]

On 6/2/2015 3:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 12:18 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>> new version 4.1-1 of

> This version of make introduces a regression in VPATH handling.
>
> Bash uses VPATH = .:/path/to/sources
>
> to specify a two-directory VPATH.  Technically, the .: is redundant
> (because make will automatically search the current directory before
> resorting to VPATH rules), but that hasn't stopped bash from using it
> anyways.  (Most automake-based packages only use a one-directory VPATH
> designation; but bash doesn't use automake)
>
> The old version of make properly handled this as two directories; but
> the new version of make is apparently treating it as a drive letter
> directive and failing to look in /path/to/sources.
>
> If I change bash to emit:
>
> VPATH = . /path/to/sources
>
> then things work again.  Likewise if I change it to omit the redundant
> leading '.:'.  So I can work around the regression in the meantime.
>
> I'm reporting it here rather than upstream, as drive letter handling may
> be cygwin-specific; but you may decide that the regression is upstream.
>   Meanwhile, I'll also report to the bash list that use of .: is no
> longer portable in VPATH designations.

make 4.0 and 4.1 are using upstream sources with no patches.
For what I understood it was the same on 3.8.x version
managed by CGF.

I will look on it

Regards
Marco



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