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Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:20:29 -0700

On 10/15/18 7:51 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> That, and POSIX is considering standardizing make behavior of nested
>> variable expansion
>
> As such (and with no further follow-up in 6 years),
> I'm closing this bug. 

Thanks. By the way, the problem was fixed at the Automake level, so 
there was no need to change the POSIX spec for 'make'. See Bug#10237. 
Also, the effort to change the POSIX spec for 'make' seems to have 
fizzled out despite not having much objection; see 
<http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=336>.

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