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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