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Re: [bug #49681] Make fails to glob lib/*.{o,a}
From: |
Edward Welbourne |
Subject: |
Re: [bug #49681] Make fails to glob lib/*.{o,a} |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:30:48 +0000 |
anonymous reported:
> This is a regression from GNU make 4.0. The make target
>
> clean:
> rm lib/*.{o,a}
>
> fails to remove files lib/foo.o, lib/bar.o, and lib/libfoobar.a because
> lib/*.{o,a} does not glob lib/*.o and lib/*.a, as is its intention.
This is a rule, which make hands off to the shell: the wild-card
expansion isn't done for you by make at all.
If you're getting different behaviour, check the value of $(SHELL) is
what you expect. Are you perhaps getting /bin/sh where previously you
got /bin/bash ? On many Linux variants, /bin/sh is now dash rather than
bash, so that might be what's really changed here. If that's the
problem, you can hopefully fix this by setting
SHELL=/bin/bash
Eddy.