bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/15/18 7:51 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > That, and POSIX is considering standardizing make behavior of nested
> > variable expansion
>
> As such (and with no further follow-up in 6 years),
> I'm closing this bug. 

Thanks. By the way, the problem was fixed at the Automake level, so 
there was no need to change the POSIX spec for 'make'. See Bug#10237. 
Also, the effort to change the POSIX spec for 'make' seems to have 
fizzled out despite not having much objection; see 
<http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=336>.