release 3.78.1 versus 3.79.1

2000-07-25 Thread Tim Brunne
Hi, I was puzzled by the following different behaviour of GNU make 3.79.1 (in comparison with 3.78.1). Consider the makefile: # GNU makefile, target specific variables. TMP=A all : TMP+=B all : TMP+=C all : echo $(TMP) The "old" GNU make 3.78.1 seems to work properly: pgu

surprising behavior: `wildcard' expands tilde, but `shell' doesn't

2000-07-25 Thread Eric Hanchrow
all: @echo wildcard: $(wildcard ~) @echo shell : $(shell echo ~) # GNU Make version 3.78.1 (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) # GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) # Here's the output I get: # 09:00:28 [erich@emerald erich]$ make -f weird # wildcard: /home/

Re: surprising behavior: `wildcard' expands tilde, but `shell' doesn't

2000-07-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eh> all: eh> @echo wildcard: $(wildcard ~) eh> @echo shell : $(shell echo ~) eh> # GNU Make version 3.78.1 (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) eh> # GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) eh> # Here's the output I get