dhcpcd-discuss

On 05/09/2019 14:05, balducci@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> hello
>
> this is just a headsup that you might be interested in
>
> Running on linux.
>
> dhcpcd doesn't build vs recently released (GNU) make-4.2.90 run candidate.
>
> The reason seems to be using suffix rules with prerequisites in both
> src/Makefile and src/dev/Makefile.
>
>  From make-4.2.90's NEWS:
>      ----8<----
>      * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
>        Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites were being
>        treated BOTH as simple targets AND as pattern rules.  Behavior now matches
>        the documentation, and pattern rules are no longer created in this case.
>      ---->8----
>
> which basically says that suffix rules with prerequisites aren't
> tolerated any longer
>
> For me, running vs make-4.2.1 or the following workaround (which I
> don't think is portable, though):

That's really poor on their part.
Suffix rules have worked with pre-requisites for years on other 
implementions such as bmake.

Roy