On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:24:10PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
: On Mar 31, 2000, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 
: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:30:49PM +0100, Lars J. Aas wrote:
: 
: > : MAKE := trap "cat $(top_srcdir)/troubleshooting" 1 2 15; $(MAKE) MAKE="$(MAKE)"
: 
: > Does anyone know if setting up a trap on make like described below
: > will fail on some platform?
: 
: The trap is fine, but the `:=' syntax is far from portable.

Without it, wouldn't the variable become recursive?  Does Automake
preprocess the variable somehow before it ends up in the Makefile?

  Lars J

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