Re: GNU make 4.2.93 release candidate available

2020-01-13 Thread John Marshall
I am the OP whose seemingly innocuous bug report (40657) has led to this mess. Unfortunately I don't recall what I was doing back in 2013, but I suspect I had naively written a suffix rule with a prerequisite that didn't work as expected, noted that the documentation said something else again, f

Re: GNU make 4.2.93 release candidate available

2020-01-13 Thread Edward Welbourne
On 2020-01-11 13:22, Martin Dorey wrote: >> Keeping the new, correct behavior in the .POSIX case, with no >> warning, that might fly, as long as none of Dennis’s myriad failing >> builds use .POSIX. I can imagine Paul finding this third option >> depressing but I think the real value here is in te