Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:11 +0200, Arthur Carlson wrote:
>> $ make SWITCH=on a
>>
>> makefile:10: *** missing `endif'. Stop.
>
> This is a bug in GNU make 3.80. You should upgrade to 3.81.
Interesting factoid: This bug is[*] also fixed (or perhaps was never
exposed) in remake[**], which is still based on the 3.80 sources. So if you
wanted a working make that could handle the syntax shown, but don't want any
of the backwardly-incompatible changes in behaviour that were introduced in
3.81 relative to 3.80[***], installing remake would be a suitable workaround.
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - At least, as far as I have seen, the symptoms do not manifest; I have
not been through the source code to try and understand for absolutely certain
why not.
[**] - http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/
[***] - I forget exactly what the incompatible changes were, but I'm fairly
sure there were one or two. They're listed in the NEWS file. They may not
matter to you for your purposes, in which case this whole email is moot.
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