Package: pmake Version: 1.111-2 Severity: normal Certain modifiers, such as ::!=, don't work if the variable in question is delimited using parentheses instead of braces, while others do. I would expect running the attached Makefile to produce "foo bar baz" or maybe even "foo", but not "foo baz".
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test:
@: ${foo::!=echo foo}
@: $(bar::!=echo bar)
@echo $(foo) $(bar) $(foo:foo=baz)
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