On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:57:18AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Hi there, > > continuing my make adventure, I've stumbled across the following > inconsistency. I would even call it a bug. > > In any event, could someone point me to a place in the make(1) man page > where it says that the S and C modifiers dereference variables given in > both the pattern and replacement, while the N and M modifiers insist on > being fed literal strings? I couldn't find it. Thanks! :) > The last paragraph of the S modifier talks about variable expansion inside the "old_string" and "new_string". There is no similar talk in the M and N descriptions. Even the OpenBSD's make(1) is subject to this same restriction.
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