Re: Enhancement request regarding make variable names

2004-01-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale R. Worley) writes: drw> It would be a useful thing if Make variable names were forbidden to drw> contain slash (`/'), as well as `:', `#', and `='. Unfortunately this is not a compatible change, and so can't be accepted. I personally know of many environments where

Re: Enhancement request regarding make variable names

2004-01-09 Thread Noel Yap
"Dale R. Worley" wrote: > > [This enhancement request is for Gnu make 3.79.1.] > > It would be a useful thing if Make variable names were forbidden to > contain slash (`/'), as well as `:', `#', and `='. The reason I make > this request is that I was rebuilding a Linux kernel in a directory > na

Re: Enhancement request regarding make variable names

2004-01-09 Thread Ted Stern
On 9 Jan 2004, Dale R. Worley wrote: > [This enhancement request is for Gnu make 3.79.1.] > > It would be a useful thing if Make variable names were forbidden to > contain slash (`/'), as well as `:', `#', and `='. The reason I make > this request is that I was rebuilding a Linux kernel in a direc

Enhancement request regarding make variable names

2004-01-09 Thread Dale R. Worley
[This enhancement request is for Gnu make 3.79.1.] It would be a useful thing if Make variable names were forbidden to contain slash (`/'), as well as `:', `#', and `='. The reason I make this request is that I was rebuilding a Linux kernel in a directory named (more or less) `/auto/LABEL=Backup/