>>>>> Richard B Kreckel writes: Richard> I suggest this fix to be incorporated into Debian's make and submitted Richard> upstream. (This *is* really a bug in make, not in glibc and friends, is Richard> it?) It's already submitted upstream - and it comes from my colleage Andreas Schwab. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de