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: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: make doesn't take the shortest stem Item: Bug Privacy: Public Component Version: 3.81 Operating System: POSIX-based When several pattern rules match a target, the one with the shortest stem should be used as stated in the documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Pattern-Match.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gnu.org_software_make_manual_html-5Fnode_Pattern-2DMatch.html&d=AwMFaQ&c=DZ-EF4pZfxGSU6MfABwx0g&r=oBMzc8Omr1YTgjig4n4076T3IKL7TuNH9HpVbojD-ms&m=oAZG8hX49smcoKU8Yo8omdz-7GHZgPhnecBXY_6eKdM&s=2ssiIxaCFFct-hzH6zMCGws5dPq8Dc-sj8-rROkAEZc&e=> However, the following Makefile does not behave as expected: aaa%: @echo "long stem $*" aaa%2: @echo "short stem $*" $ make aaa12 long stem 12 I would have expect: $ make aaa12 short stem 1
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