Re: Meaning of @:

2015-11-26 Thread Ewan Delanoy
Cc: help-make Objet: Re: Meaning of @: The colon is not a make feature at all but a shell construct. It’s a “do-nothing” command; the result is similar to commenting out the line, except that in this case the $(unstage) action would still take place since it’s separated by a semicolo

Re: Meaning of @:

2015-11-26 Thread David Boyce
The colon is not a make feature at all but a shell construct. It’s a “do-nothing” command; the result is similar to commenting out the line, except that in this case the $(unstage) action would still take place since it’s separated by a semicolon. BTW this is a badly written makefile because “;” s