Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-03-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Both of you have confirmed the bug - because the correct behaviour has > > no error messages, and you both got messages.  Neither of you was able > > to reproduce getting a text-dependent nu

Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-02-28 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:04 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > > > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words > > > > > > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81. > > > >

Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-02-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Martin Dorey wrote: > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words > > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81. > > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ dpkg -S `which make` > make: /usr/bin/make > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ dpkg --status make > ... > Version: 3.81-5 > ... > mart...@white

Re: Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-02-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:04 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words > > > > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81. > > I agree: I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit, with GNU make 3.81-6 installed > as well, and I don't see th

Weird text-dependent bug in $(eval ...), simple test case

2010-02-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Dear Make maintainers, Create a file called buggyMakefile with these two lines: CONFIGS := normal c99-pedantic c89-pedantic foobar baz $(foreach C,$(CONFIGS),$(eval $C $C/:;)) and then run "make -f buggyMakefile". If you're using the same GNU Make 3.81 as me, it will greet you with some