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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make |
Date: | Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:51:50 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
tags 10234 wontfix close 10234 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 06/12/11 10:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/06/2011 10:36 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:Paul Eggert wrote:On 12/06/11 01:11, Basavaraj B wrote:)rm -f alloca.h-t alloca.h && { echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; cat ./alloca.in.h; } > alloca.h-h /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1 : `)' unexpected *** Error code 2Ouch. Coreutils is built with Automake's silent-rules feature, and as I just now discovered, that feature is documented to not be portable to POSIX make.
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IMO, nonstop is a fringe target, so I am very reluctant to sacrifice the above default solely to accommodate that system.
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That, and POSIX is considering standardizing make behavior of nested variable expansion
As such (and with no further follow-up in 6 years), I'm closing this bug. regards, -a ssaf
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