The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the presence of the ".POSIX:" special target. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> >> You may want to check out http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=857 and >> add comments and/or change GNU make behavior accordingly. > > > Let's leave GNU 'make' alone. Its behavior is better for rules like this: > > copy: original > cp -p original copy > > I've added a comment to the Austin Group page. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@xxxxxxx > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf