Possible problem / misunderstanding in make manual

2011-05-12 Thread Julien Palard
I have hard time to understand a part of the make manual, the problem can be a typo of a subject not clearly expressed, here is the point : In the page about multiline variables : http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/make/Multi_002dLine.html A statement say that : "You may omit the variable assignmen

Re: Possible problem / misunderstanding in make manual

2011-05-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:10 +0200, Julien Palard wrote: > I have hard time to understand a part of the make manual, the problem > can be a typo of a subject not clearly expressed, here is the point : > > In the page about multiline variables : > http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/make/Multi_002dLin

Re: Possible problem / misunderstanding in make manual

2011-05-12 Thread Julien Palard
2011/5/12 Paul Smith > That's because the online manual describes the latest released version > of GNU make (3.82) but your system is using an older version where this > feature is not supported. > Oh so easy ... and the version is wrote in the first page of the online version ( i missed it ) ,