Added a comment: expression anchored too closely?

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[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/"
 nickname="smcv"
 subject="expression anchored too closely?"
 date="2010-11-23T10:43:08Z"
 content="""
It looks as though you might only be excluding a top-level Makefile, and not a Makefile in subdirectories. Try excluding `(^|/)Makefile$` instead, for instance? (See `wiki_file_prune_regexps` in `IkiWiki.pm` for hints.)

The match operation in `&file_pruned` ends up a bit like this:

    \"foo/Makefile\" =~ m{…||…|(^|/)Makefile$}
"""]]