[Bug 1667821] Re: load target breaks make

2017-02-27 Thread J.J. Green
Good idea, I've done that Cheers Jim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667821 Title: load target breaks make To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/

Re: [Bug 1667821] Re: load target breaks make

2017-02-27 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 27 February 2017 at 15:56, J.J. Green <1667...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > This would seem to be a recent change to behaviour, and a quick google > search shows examples with a space before the colon in Gnu make's own > documentation and of other makes. This being the case, a couple of > lines

[Bug 1667821] Re: load target breaks make

2017-02-27 Thread J.J. Green
This would seem to be a recent change to behaviour, and a quick google search shows examples with a space before the colon in Gnu make's own documentation and of other makes. This being the case, a couple of lines of C printing a more helpful message in the case that the Makefile requests that it

[Bug 1667821] Re: load target breaks make

2017-02-27 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
load: is parsed as a make target load : is parsed as a load directive asking to load an extended module (make plugin) named literary `:' https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#load-Directive Please use correct syntax for targets, without a space before `:'. ** Changed in: make-df