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--- Begin Message ---URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47150> Summary: Silently fails on mistyped function names Project: make Submitted by: srivasta Submitted on: Sun 14 Feb 2016 10:35:50 PM CST Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Bug Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Component Version: 4.1 Operating System: Any Fixed Release: None Triage Status: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Hi, This was reported by a debian user. Please retain a CC to 774681-forwar...@bugs.debian.org so that the Debian BTS has a copy of your input. make ignores it when an undefined function is used in a makefile, and just substitutes the empty string for the function call. Instead, it really, really should fail and report a faulty makefile. Especially because there are no user-defined functions so this unfriendly behavior doesn't even buy anything in flexibility. I have just spent an hour or so debugging a 20 line makefile. I used the dirname function in one of my rules, only I forgot that for make it is spelled just $(dir ...) and not ($dirname ...) . I was at the point of throwing something at my computer, and I'm exaggerating only a tiny little bit. Exemplar ######################################## all: @echo $(dirname $(shell pwd)) ######################################## Selently returns nothing. Manoj _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47150> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
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