Re: Recursive implicit rule chain sometimes works

[David Boyce]

> The problem is that Debian and distributions that depend on it have refused 
> to upgrade its make package from 3.81 to 3,82

See my other email. Upgrading to 3.82 is a problem; upgrading to 4.1
is not. In this release cycle GNU make is completely backward;
normally we expect compatibility problems from major revisions and not
from point releases, but in this case the major compatibility issue is
between 3.81 and 3.82 and 4.1 fixes it.

David

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Reinier Post <address@hidden> wrote:
> Op wo 19 nov 2014 14:55:27 GMT schreef address@hidden (Luke Goodsell):
>> OK, thanks.
>>
>> I'm preparing something to share with other users on the system, so
>> I'll see if I can persuade the admin to update.
>
> The problem is that Debian and distributions that depend on it
> have refused to upgrade its make package from 3.81 to 3,82 due to
> some obscure problem with compiling tiny fragments of the Linux kernel;
> see this mailing list's archive for details.  Until this changes
> (which may be soon), your admin will need to compile and install
> make from source code.  As you can see, this isn't hard,
> and it probably won't break anything, either, unless you
> have lots of complicated homegrown Makefiles.
>
> --
> Reinier Post (not speaking for the make project, just a user)
>
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