On 05/08/11 21:38, Philip Guenther wrote: [snip] >> What am I missing? > > You missed saying what version of make you were running. My version is 1.81 > > My crystal ball says that you're NOT running the version documented by > the website, yet your makefile uses a syntax that was added in 3.82. > To quote the 3.82 NEWS file: > ---- > * The 'define' make directive now allows a variable assignment operator > after the variable name, to allow for simple, conditional, or appending > multi-line variable assignment. > ---- > > Either stick with the docs on your local system (try "info 'gnu > make'") or keep up with the current version. > > > Philip Guenther You're correct. Sorry for noise. I just removed the trailing = on the define line and it now works.
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