On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:19:36PM +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Le Mardi 20 Décembre 2005 14:10, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > On Dec 20, Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is due to changes in make 3.80+3.81.b3-1 concerning how the lines > > > are passed to the shell. Previously, they would be concatenated; now > > > they are passed verbatim to the shell, backslashes and newlines included > > > (minus the first tab on each line). > > It breaks a widely used feature. Why should this change not be > > considered a make bug? > In make's NEWS.Debian.gz it says this change was for POSIX compliance.
SUSv3 (at http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/) says: ] To receive exactly the behavior described in this section, the user ] shall ensure that a portable makefile shall: ] ] * Include the special target .POSIX ] * Omit any special target reserved for implementations (a leading ] period followed by uppercase letters) that has not been specified ] by this section ] ] The behavior of make is unspecified if either or both of these ] conditions are not met. So the old behaviour's POSIX compatible as long as the Makefile doesn't specify the .POSIX target. Cheers, aj
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