Follow-up Comment #18, bug #15919 (project make): Sorry J David Bryan, as you say there is no obvious way to edit comments once they have been submitted. I am just very frustrated with the current lack of progress with GNU make, and you caught me on a bad day.
Looking over my current sources I see I have updated my sources since my patch. If you email me directly (savannah at icarus freeuk com)I will send you an updated patch which is actually the fix to your problem, it is not the fix to 16051. Paul, it would be nice to believe you. However you released 3.81 without testing bug 3330 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?3330>. If you had done this testing you would have found this bug before releasing 3.81. Personally I consider this bug to be a "release critical" bug, by which I mean it has to be fixed before a release is made, and just fixing this bug is a reason for creating a new release. It takes a perfectly valid input, and causes make to enter an infinite loop. If "cat" had a bug so that if it was given a filename with "dog" in it it went into an infinite loop then people would expect a fix faster than a year, let alone 4 years. Do you agree Paul? _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15919> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
