On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:38:17AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> The biggest problem with GNU make that I've seen is re-expansion
> of variable variables.
> 
> The suggested fix doesn't address that, so it won't fix the most
> common "compatability problem".

So what? It fixes (in a backward-compatible way because ``$^'' isn't used in
BSD make) one incompatibility without which I have to have two different
Makefiles in the simple case I am thinking about. It's at least an incremental
improvement that doesn't break anything afaIcs.

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