[bug #31002] make picks wrong pattern rule

2010-09-10 Thread Boris Kolpackov
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #31002 (project make): Roland, I think you overstate the seriousness of the problem. There are not many makefiles that both define multiple pattern rules and rely on their order for selection. 3.82 has been out for a few months now and glibc is the first such case (which

[bug #31002] make picks wrong pattern rule

2010-09-10 Thread Roland McGrath
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #31002 (project make): IMHO these dismally subtle incompatible changes in make semantics were an absolutely terrible idea. I'm quite dismayed that Paul has been so cavalier in breaking what was well-defined behavior in make for about two decades now. Imperfect as they