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Re: make 3.82 considered harmful
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: make 3.82 considered harmful
- References: <20130613182622 dot 8F4982C07F at topped-with-meat dot com> <m24nd1a9uy dot fsf at linux-m68k dot org>
> 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.