Looks like the report in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2021-01/msg00016.html
... only this time without any version number. The answer a couple of weeks ago was: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2021-01/msg00017.html (I couldn't find it with Google, even though I remembered it, though I failed to find a robots.txt preventing it from indexing the mailing list archive.) ________________________________ From: Bug-make <bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds....@gnu.org> on behalf of Niko's ProtonMail Account <nikolai.gu...@protonmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 04:34 To: bug-make@gnu.org <bug-make@gnu.org> Subject: GNU Make documentation example error ***** EXTERNAL EMAIL ***** Dear GNU maintainers, I think there may be a mistake in the section “5.8 Defining Canned Recipes” of the GNU Make manual: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Fmake%2Fmanual%2Fmake.html%23Canned-Recipes&data=04%7C01%7CMartin.Dorey%40hitachivantara.com%7Cb6e93aa4053748e460a808d8c39fbcce%7C18791e1761594f52a8d4de814ca8284a%7C0%7C0%7C637474438130704342%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3x9RGtb5xiMwT%2FA%2BdiEP6ay%2FXyHMHSa9I8%2Fg4NYvyCM%3D&reserved=0. The examples show the “define” directive followed by an equals sign (“=“), however for me it only works once I remove the equals sign as shown in the section on defining multi-line variables: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Fmake%2Fmanual%2Fmake.html%23Multi_002dLine&data=04%7C01%7CMartin.Dorey%40hitachivantara.com%7Cb6e93aa4053748e460a808d8c39fbcce%7C18791e1761594f52a8d4de814ca8284a%7C0%7C0%7C637474438130704342%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=5KRsO6siDx5U%2FgkcYXXxhG6%2BAoJE%2F3xiwdFs%2F%2FfJp0M%3D&reserved=0. Interestingly, even that section contains an example where the equals sign is used (at the bottom of the section) and it likewise only works once I remove the equals sign. Best, Nikolai
