Re: Fw: make - rm bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Hedley Lester on 5/8/2006 5:59 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> There appears to be a bug in the interaction between make and rm, so that it 
> does not expand *.o when it is inside the makefile.  It works fine on the 
> command line.
> 
> Running under Windows XP
> 
>> rm --version 
> rm (GNU fileutils) 3.16
> 
>> make --version
> GNU Make version 3.75, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> 
> I don't know if this bug is still extant in later versions

Those are some very old versions.  Consider using cygwin, which has
already packaged coreutils 5.94 (the replacement to fileutils), and make
3.80, for use on windows.  See cygwin.com for details.

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