>>> '$(x:...(...)$$)'
>> I don't see $$) anywhere in my lie above - nor anywhere else in
>> local-prog, for that matter.
> I extracted the '$$)' from your line 121 and minified it to the parts
> necessary to understand the parentheses counting parts.
It looks as though you also deleted parts, since line 121 is
$(x:C;^.*\.([0-9].*)$$;$(INSTMANDIR)/cat\1;):
and the only ways I see to get $$) out of that are to delete
";$(INSTMANDIR" or to delete ";$(INSTMANDIR)/cat\1;", neither of which
seems to me to match what you wrote
>> It counts the '$(' as starting a subexpression, then ignores the
>> following '(', and when it sees the first ')', it considers the
>> expression completed, leaving the '$$)' for a syntax error.
The only places I see $( there are at the very beginning and the
$(INSTMANDIR) in the replacement string, neither of which makes much
sense to me (and only the first of which even _has_ a following '(').
Thus my remark that I'd have to trace through the code to understand
what you mean.
> In case you want to build old versions of make,
On my own machines, I use the 5.2 and 4.0.1 makes, with 64-bit time_t
changes and, for the 4.0.1 make, a fix for := variable expansion. (For
use on 1.4T, I backported the 5.2 make after one run-in too many with
the make variant it shipped with.) I considered copying that to the
9.1 machine, to get consistency between that and what I run at home,
but figured I might be running into a bug, in which case it would
probably be worth alerting someone to.
> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/misc/rillig/make-archive/
I may have a look at that at some point. Thanks for the pointer!
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