On 2020-01-11 13:22, Martin Dorey wrote:
>> accept prerequisites and implement them as
> the user expects, which violates POSIX ... and which never happened
> before
>
> I fear implementing what the makefile author asked for instead of
> what they got... could expose other latent issues in their m
> accept prerequisites and implement them as
the user expects, which violates POSIX ... and which never happened before
I fear implementing what the makefile author asked for instead of what they
got... could expose other latent issues in their makefile.
> Martin had suggested some kind of warni
On 2020-01-10 14:54, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 11:02 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Meanwhile a friend and I are giving 4.2.93 a look on FreeBSD 12.0 and
a whole slew of packages fail to build.
I can reproduce these failures trying to build dpkg 1.19.7 on GNU/Linux
with the new make
On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 15:07 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> Oh. It's this change:
>
> * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
> Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites were being
> treated BOTH as simple targets AND as pattern rules. Behavior now matches
> the documentation,
