Re: Goodbye to GNU make's "build.sh" ... ?

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 5:48 PM Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> Seems like it's not so much that the patch was rejected; indeed they
> seem to agree there's a bug.  But they wanted more work on it and it
> sort of fell apart.  I have no idea how much effort it would be to push
> hard enough to get a change merged.


i think, people use shell globbing much more often than $(wildcard) or
glibc's glob impl.
bash's glob impl is derived from the same old rms impl and has the bug
fixed. And this allows the situation to continue.

regards, Dmitry