On 02/27/2013 11:30 AM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Wagenaar
<invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote:
The example for the "eval" function in the documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Eval-Function.html contains
a syntax error that causes the example to fail quietly. The problem is in the
line
define PROGRAM_template =
This line should not have "=" at the end.
No, that line is perfectly correct. The problem is that you're still
running version 3.81, which was obsoleted almost 3 years ago. Upgrade
to 3.82. Or use "info make" to read the documentation that's
installed on your system and therefore matches the version you're
running.
Philip Guenther
I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation on
the website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that older
versions of make fail quietly when there is a "=" at the end of the
line. The reason is that make v. 3.81 is still in very wide use. For
instance, it is part of Ubuntu 12.04-LTS as well as Mint 14.
- Daniel Wagenaar
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