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Subject: RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:33:30 -0400
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Interesting - I'll have to go back and reread the make docs to
fix this in my mind.
 
Thanks for teaching me something new today :-)
 
-Samrobb

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Ross Ridge [mailto:rridge AT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca] 
	Sent: Mon 4/19/2004 9:40 PM 
	To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....
	
	

	>  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
	
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