make 3.82 considered harmful

Roland McGrath roland@hack.frob.com
Fri Jun 14 23:20:00 GMT 2013


> Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:
> 
> > It got it right for the first 20 years of the pattern rule feature.
> 
> I don't understand.  Clearly it was broken under the "first 20 years of
> the pattern rule feature", whereas it worked correctly with the current
> implementation.

Yes, the sysd-rules logic was broken.  It was pure happenstance that the
change in make behavior introduced in 3.82 coincided with papering over
that bug.  That's what I said before.



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