Re: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-02 Thread Reinier Post
On Mon Jun 1 13:27:53 2015, psm...@gnu.org (Paul Smith) wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 13:54 +0200, Meir BENAYOUN wrote: > > Item: Bug > > Privacy: Public > > Component Version: 3.81 > > > > When several pattern rules match a target, the one with the shortest > > stem should be used as stated in

Re: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Meir BENAYOUN
Thank you for your explanations. I didn't noticed that my make version was so old, it's the default one with Ubuntu 14.04. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 13:54 +0200, Meir BENAYOUN wrote: > > Item: Bug > > Privacy: Public > > Component Version: 3.81 > >

Re: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 13:54 +0200, Meir BENAYOUN wrote: > Item: Bug > Privacy: Public > Component Version: 3.81 > > When several pattern rules match a target, the one with the shortest > stem should be used as stated in the documentation: You are using GNU make 3.81 (released in 2006) but reading

RE: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Martin Dorey
Ø short stem 1 That's what I see from eg make-4.1.90 from git (2014-10-05). The NEWS file dates make-3.81 to 2006-04-01. From: bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds@gnu.org [mailto:bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Meir BENAYOUN Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 04:54 To: