make documentation snags

2001-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Laun
GNU Make version 3.77 GNU Make Manual 20 May 1998 Some documentation snags: (a) Functions -> Text Functions -> Functions for String Substitution and Analysis The documentation on subst does not mention that $(subst ,TO,TEXT) returns TEXTTO, e.g.: bash> make -f - X = $(subst

make assertion failure with target-specific variables

2001-01-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This may be a repeat for some of the people addressed by this message. I think I may have sent it out with the wrong addresses (that should teach me to try and deal with my packages at 3:30am) [Please retain a CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that the Debian Bug tracking

3.80 development

2001-01-30 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Hi Paul and all, How's 3.80 development going on, is anything new available on CVS and how can I contribute? In particular I'm interested in expanding multi-line strings that can be evaluated as commands eliminating the need to write them in separate makefiles and including them (which I think is

Re: Makefile with CRLFs bug

2001-01-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
I believe this is a manifestation of a bug fixed by the following patch. Please try it and let me know. --- make-3.79.1/read.c Wed Jun 21 15:33:30 2000 +++ make/read.c Fri Nov 24 09:12:25 2000 @@ -2142,15 +2142,16 @@ char *buffer = linebuffer->buffer; register char *p = linebuffer->buff

Re: Order of variable definition and rule matters!?

2001-01-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jens Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> I cannot believe that this is a bug because it seems so basic. js> And other makes behave identical. However, I didn't found a js> single line of docu on that in the online-docu (I would have js> expected it, or at least a link to it, in se

Order of variable definition and rule matters!?

2001-01-30 Thread Jens Schmidt
Hi. See below for a problem log. I cannot believe that this is a bug because it seems so basic. And other makes behave identical. However, I didn't found a single line of docu on that in the online-docu (I would have expected it, or at least a link to it, in section "Using Variables", subsectio

Makefile with CRLFs bug

2001-01-30 Thread Eric Estievenart
Hello there, I found a strange bug while reading a makefile with CRLF on Linux. (I know, I shouldn't have CRLF files under unix, but this is another problem ;-) My make version is v 3.79.1 The error message is : amdba.mak.ko:11: *** missing separator. Stop. (The makefile contains a long varia