On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 21:47 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > Maybe a version difference. I'm using 4.4. > > I get the same output with GNU make 4.4 as with 4.3.
Apologies for my mistake: I'm using the latest release (4.4.1). I tried your test: $ make --trace mbrtoc32.o Makefile:1752: update target 'mbrtoc32.o' due to: target does not exist gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gllib -I.. -DGNULIB_STRICT_CHECKING=1 -g -O2 -MT mbrtoc32.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mbrtoc32.Tpo -c -o mbrtoc32.o ../../gllib/mbrtoc32.c mv -f .deps/mbrtoc32.Tpo .deps/mbrtoc32.Po $ make --version GNU Make 4.4.1 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
