Re: Semantic strangeness in parsing makefiles

[Tim Van Holder]

>   FOO = bar:baz
> 
>   $(FOO) biz : boz
> 
> Current versions of GNU make will parse this as:
> 
>   bar : baz biz : boz

That IS gross - I don't think we want that.

> So, what do people think about this?  Is it simpler to understand the
> new way, or the old way?  Do you think the old behavior is documented (I

I think the new way is better, provided indeed that there are few (if any)
existing Makefiles that depend on this behaviour.