Hello,
It seems GMAKE doesn't like
having semicolons within the value of a target specific
variable.
a : SOME_VAR := c;
d
a :
@echo
$(SOME_VAR)
The above exampe gives me
the following error:
c
/bin/sh: d: Execute permission denied.
gmake: *** [a] Error 127
/bin/sh: d: Execute permission denied.
gmake: *** [a] Error 127
So it prints 'c' as
expected and then tries to execute 'd' as if it were a command. As a
workaround I used quotes around the entire value of the target specific variable
and everything seemed to work fine until I hit about 130 or more
characters:
a : SOME_VAR := "c; d;
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
# 'e' x 130+ characters
a :
@echo
$(SOME_VAR)
Once there are more than a
130 characters AND there is a semicolon within the quoted string, I get
this error message:
Makefile:3: Malformed
per-target variable definition
Bus error (core dumped)
Bus error (core dumped)
This error disappears once
I remove the semicolon from the variable. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Milan
