%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bk> Consider this makefile:
bk> foobar := world bk> define name bk> \ bk> foobar bk> endef bk> .PHONY: hello bk> hello: ; @echo hello $(value $(name)) bk> It prints just "hello". I would guess it is because define assigns bk> the value verbatim Correct. It's not clear to me how you expect this to behave. By the time make starts to expand variables it has already resolved all the backslash/newline pairs: it has to do this first or nothing works properly. Are you saying that it should perform _ANOTHER_ round of backslash/newline resolution at some point during the parsing or expansion of variables? Exactly when? How will this impact backward compatibility? Or are some functions going to do it and others not? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "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
