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bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make


From: Assaf Gordon
Subject: bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:51:50 -0600
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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 2

Ouch.  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.
[...]

IMO, nonstop is a fringe target, so I am very reluctant to
sacrifice the above default solely to accommodate that system.
[...]
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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