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Re: make 3.82 considered harmful


> Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:
> 
> > So the sysd-rules rule in Makerules needs to sort sysd-rules-patterns by
> > length or something like that.
> 
> So that means that it is easier to get it right with the new
> shortest-stem rule.

How it happened to be happens to be wrong in a way that happens to coincide
roughly with the change to the behavior.  But the old behavior was easy to
understand while the new behavior is not.


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