Re: make: Unfinished character list in pattern

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> That was a deliberate change 
Which broke my real-world application. Fortunately, on a development system.

> in order to catch cases where the end of a range was accidentally omitted.
1. this is UNIX.
2. how do you catch cases where the beginning of a range was accidentally
   omitted?

> The wording in make's manual page doesn't refer to glob(7), it doesn't
> even suggest what the semantics of the "standard shell wildcard
> characters" might be.
I would suppose that, if you ask a hundred UNIX programmers what "standard 
shell wildcard characters" mean, ninty-nine and a half of them would refer 
to "glob" in their answer.

> And in fact, make(1)'s :M modifier differs from glob(7) in many more 
> edge cases.
Then, in my humble opinion, these differences should be fixed or at least 
documented. Or even better, eliminated for good by using glob(3).

> You can write :M*[-+]* instead.
Unless I also want to match ] or !.