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

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 22:00 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> What was the original driving force to introduce build.sh?

As mentioned, the goal of "build.sh" is to allow systems without an
already-existing make program to bootstrap themselves, by providing a
way to build GNU make without using "make".

> 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.

Sorry I think I lost the thread here.

Just to remind, two things: first, the glob issue is not the primary
one; even if we leave glob the same way it is right now we'll still
have the build.sh problem.

And second, today GNU make uses its built-in glob ONLY on systems which
don't provide a GNU version of glob in their libc.  So for any system
which uses GNU libc, we are using the libc version of glob and whatever
bugs it contains.