On Page 3 (Actual page 12) of the PDF document that I downloaded from your web site entitled
GNU Make A Program for Directing Recompilation GNU make Version 3.81 April 2006 Third sentence from the bottom of the page says... If you have enabled secondary expansion (see Section 3.10 [Secondary Expansion], page 19) and you want a literal dollar sign in the prerequisites lise, you must actually write four dollar signs ($$$$¹). But lise -> should read line instead. I have found the manual to be extraordinarily helpful. Thanks for such a well written manuscript! George Wood Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Here are the checksums and directory listing entry that define the file I am referring to ... gwood$ openssl md5 make.pdf MD5(make.pdf)= 1f13e9bdd6dfece21828d0c4bc1458e8 gwood$ openssl sha make.pdf SHA(make.pdf)= 524e64c0a918886b1cd2907db0887113b3c3a8d4 gwood$ ls -l make.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 gwood gwood 1120410 Apr 3 06:43 make.pdf _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make