Re: [bug #38433] Example for "eval" in documentation contains error with "define"

[Daniel Wagenaar]

On 02/27/2013 11:30 AM, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Wagenaar
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The example for the "eval" function in the documentation at
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Eval-Function.html contains
> > a syntax error that causes the example to fail quietly. The problem is in the
> > line
> >
> >       define PROGRAM_template =
> >
> > This line should not have "=" at the end.
> No, that line is perfectly correct.  The problem is that you're still
> running version 3.81, which was obsoleted almost 3 years ago.  Upgrade
> to 3.82.   Or use "info make" to read the documentation that's
> installed on your system and therefore matches the version you're
> running.
>
>
> Philip Guenther
I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation on 
the website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that older 
versions of make fail quietly when there is a "=" at the end of the 
line. The reason is that make v. 3.81 is still in very wide use. For 
instance, it is part of Ubuntu 12.04-LTS as well as Mint 14.

- Daniel Wagenaar