%% Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ss> here is a little Makefile that makes make version 3.79.1 abort:
ss> --- ss> .FORCE: ss> a: ss> .FORCE I assume the above is some kind of line wrapping error in your mail client, since it doesn't make any sense as-is, and this really meant: a: .FORCE ss> @echo "foobar is $(foobar)" ss> a: foobar+="foobar" ss> --- ss> it runs fine when I call 'make', but with 'make foobar="bla"' ss> it aborts (with a meaningful error message). There has been a patch floating around for this for a long time; you can get it from the archives, or you can get a prerelease I made of the next version (this doesn't have most of the changes that will be in the new version of make: it has a number of bug fixes and it implements the latest auto* tools: I released to try to get the auto* changes a wider testing). ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.79.2a1.tar.gz ss> By the way, I sent in a bug report almost a year ago about errors ss> when resolving target patterns in specific cases, but never got ss> any feedback. Is make actually maintained these days ? Should I ss> send the bugreport again ? Please do. When you do so, please try to find a way to include examples in your email verbatim, so they are not auto-wrapped like the above. It makes it _very_ difficult to read your makefiles when newlines are not maintained properly. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
