Re: Variable assignment in Make 3.77 on i686, Red Hat

2000-03-08 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current latest version is 3.78.1. I tried to find this information, and a list of known bugs, at www.gnu.org but failed. Perhaps it is there - I didn't want to spend much more time on it anymore. Thanks. -- Jussi

Variable assignment in Make 3.77 on i686, Red Hat

2000-03-07 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
The info page (make)Setting says > These two settings of the variable `FOO' are identical [snip]: > > FOO ?= bar > > and > > ifeq ($(origin FOO), undefined) > FOO = bar > endif yet I had trouble with the former and not with the latter. It seems that in the former syntax, `make' a