Re: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 13:54 +0200, Meir BENAYOUN wrote: Item: Bug Privacy: Public Component Version: 3.81 When several pattern rules match a target, the one with the shortest stem should be used as stated in the documentation: You are using GNU make 3.81 (released in 2006) but reading the

make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Meir BENAYOUN
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 However, the following

RE: make doesn't take the shortest stem

2015-06-01 Thread Martin Dorey
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