Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false.... To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:40:31 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20040420014032.061F1A8670@perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: rridge AT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca (Ross Ridge) > Possibly a bug in make, as I'd expect it to complain >about an undefined function named "error:". I would've expected it to complain about a bad substition reference, ie. it's missing an "=". > Similar constructs are also silently ignored: > > $(foo This isn't a valid make function) > $(bar Neither is this) Since "foo" and "bar" aren't functions supported by GNU Make these are just simple variable references. Eg: foo This isn't a valid make function=one bar Neither is this=two test: echo $(foo This isn't a valid make function) echo $(bar Neither is this) Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge AT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rridge/ db // -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/