From:	pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	automake help needed
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Date:	Sun, 05 Aug 2001 05:18:13 GMT
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I have a Makefile.am with the following rule defined in it:

thisrule::
ifdef THISVAR
	@echo "what to do when THISVAR is defined"
else
	@echo "what to do when THISVAR is NOT defined"
endif
	@echo "and this is another action to take"

automake complains that the "else" and "endif" have no matching "if",
but "ifdef" is a valid Make conditional according to the latest Make
info file.

Is there something wrong with this syntax, or does this look like an
automake bug?  I tried "ifdef $(THISVAR)" and "ifdef '$(THISVAR)'",
but neither syntax made any difference to the error message.

I'm using the automake version in the archive from simtel,
amake14b.zip.

Help, RTFM, advice all appreciated.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR
                     pjfarley3 AT nospam DOT escape DOT com)

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