Re: make patch: prefer standard behavior

2020-04-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:33:25PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > Our make (bsd make) has "alternate" dependency operators :: and ! > > Twenty years ago, we made it so that ambiguous constructs like > File::Find.3p: File/Find.pm > > would no longer be ambiguous thanks to the added space. > > Now, I

make patch: prefer standard behavior

2020-04-09 Thread Marc Espie
Our make (bsd make) has "alternate" dependency operators :: and ! Twenty years ago, we made it so that ambiguous constructs like File::Find.3p: File/Find.pm would no longer be ambiguous thanks to the added space. Now, I believe that ! should be trumped by : if both are present in the same line