Re: pattern rules and pattern-specific-variables problem

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> I believe you are right, pre-sorting pattern rules and
  bk> pattern-specific variables to be longest-first should do the
  bk> trick.

Actually, we have to do them in opposite order.  That is, pattern rules
need to be sorted with longest first, but pattern-specific variables
need to be sorted shortest first, so that the most specific variables
are set last and override the least specific ones.

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