Package: make
Version: 3.81-8.2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Makefiles which contain shell commands ending in &> are incorrectly parse by
Make 3.81-8.2 on Debian. It's worth noting that this also effects Ubuntu and
presumably other upstream distributions.
While bash documentation indicates that &> should redirect output to a file
(and indeed, it does so on RHEL/CentOS-based distributions, as well as OSX), it
does not do this on Debian 7 or Ubuntu 14.04.01 (the only version we tested).
To test this, create a Makefile with these contents:
#BEGIN MAKEFILE
nosleep:
<tab>sleep 40 &> deleteme.txt ; \
<tab>echo "sleep complete";
#END MAKEFILE
then, run:
make nosleep
This is affecting us, because we must rewrite Makefiles whenever we wish to run
them on Debian-based systems.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Removing &> from Makefiles has given us a workaround
* What was the outcome of this action?
make proceeds past the command terminated by &> without waiting for the command
to execute.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
We expected &> to function as it does on other Linux distributions, and as it
does on OSX.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages make depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u7
make recommends no packages.
Versions of packages make suggests:
pn make-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
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