surprising behavior: `wildcard' expands tilde, but `shell' doesn't

all: @echo wildcard: $(wildcard ~) @echo shell : $(shell echo ~) # GNU Make version 3.78.1 (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) # GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) (as shipped with RedHat 6.2) # Here's the output I get: # 09:00:28 [erich@emerald erich]$ make -f weird # wildcard: /home/

assertion failure

make version 3.78.1 My Makefile contains exactly three characters -- a backslash, a space, and a colon. Typing `make' yields this: make: read.c:892: read_makefile: Assertion `*p2 != '\0'' failed. Aborted (core dumped) For what it's worth, I do not see this behavior with 3.79.1

suggestion for manual

(I'm reading the manual for version 3.79) At the end of Node: Multiple Rules, I think it'd be useful to have a reference to Node: Double-Colon, since double-colon rules are another way to have multiple rules all with the same target. Here's how I came across this: I have a hierarchy of projects