Re: GNU Make Extensions

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, NightStrike wrote:

> Shouldn't the onus be on me, as the project maintainer, to accept that
> risk and craft the wildcards properly?  I for one would wager heavily
> that the probability of that being a problem is FAR less than the
> current problems of maintaining the source file list.  Doing it
> manually has already proven so error-prone as to cause significant
> lost time.

The problem is not so much the crafting of wildcards as it is 
unintended "accidents" in the filesystem.  For my own project I do 
have some bits which are based on wildcards and several times files 
have been bundled up which I did not intend to be included.

Bob
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