[bug #33034] "Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." for Linux kernel out of source builds

[Josh Triplett]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #33034 (project make):

> If it turns out that simply changing the fatal() to an error() is sufficient
to resolve this, I'm willing to make that change (I won't add a flag for it;
the message will simply say the syntax is unsupported and should be updated).


Thank you.

>  GNU make is not the kernel, and I reject attempts to impose the development
ethos of the kernel on GNU make.

That's disappointing.

Personally, when holding up software as the model of backward compatibility, I
usually point to debhelper, which still supports packages written for the very
first version.

> it's easily, IMO, inferrable that the syntax is not intended to be valid

I'm curious what you infer that from.  I haven't found anything to that effect
outside of the 3.82 release notes.

>  That bug should (a) not be release-critical, and (b) should be filed
against the Linux kernel headers package, not GNU make.

The kernel has already been fixed.  The RC bug on Make is for introducing a
regression in Makefile parsing.

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