Re: Make and makefile bugs (PRs 49085, 49086, 49087)

[Jarmo Jaakkola <jarmo.jaakkola%roskakori.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Antoine LECA wrote:
> On 2014-08-17 15:03Z, Jarmo Jaakkola wrote:
> > So, if .a, .b, and .a.b are known suffixes,
> 
> According to POSIX, .a.b is not a valid suffix:
>       [...] (where .s1 and .s2 are suffixes that have been given as
>        prerequisites of the .SUFFIXES special target and s1 and s2 do
>        not contain any <slash> or <period> characters.)

Yeah, I know.  But our implementation allows any string not containing
a slash as an extension, thus we need to deal with this possibility.

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Jarmo Jaakkola