Update of bug #63352 (project make):
Status: None => Not A Bug
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #3:
This is not a bug in GNU make.
Your makefile is malformed; make conditional statements must have a space
after them in order to be recognized. Your makefile:
ifneq (,)
ifeq(,)
endif
endif
is equivalent (to the GNU make parser) to this:
ifneq (,)
yadayadayada
endif
endif
As you can see, you _DO_ have an extraneous endif here; you have one *ifneq*
and two *endif*s.
The reason the issue "only manifests when the outer condition fails" is
because when the outer condition fails, the contents of the if-statement are
not parsed by the make parser so make doesn't realize that the text is
invalid. This is a feature, not a bug: many makefiles make use of this to
allow content in a makefile that would otherwise be considered a syntax
error.
If you change it so the outer condition succeeds, and make _does_ parse the
content, then you get an error which should point you to the problem:
$ cat Makefile
ifeq (,)
ifeq(,)
endif
endif
$ make
Makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop.
Obviously to make your original makefile correct, you just need to add a space
after the *ifeq*:
ifneq (,)
ifeq (,)
endif
endif
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