Re: win32 compilation of make 4. 0 source code‏

[Mark Brown]

That example method is a device to perform this .FEATURES test
without inserting it into an existing Makefile.
The syntax errors I was seeing were occurring when attempting to insert this 
test
into an existing Makefile, full of Targets and command sequences.
If this feature is used it would be at the top of an existing Makefile, 
before any targets
are evaluated.

I also want to know if there is a debug mode within make
in which the Makefile filename and Line Number
(some Makefiles are huge and distributed over several subordinate Makefiles)
is matched to each automatic variable evaluation within a Target evaluation.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Smith
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:28 AM
To: Mark Brown
Cc: Eli Zaretskii ; Pavel Fedin ; address@hidden
Subject: Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code‏

On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 11:03 -0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> I had a  make.exe 3.80 and it had problems with "else ifeq"
> constructs, so that forced me to seek a more recent version for win32.

Yes that version didn't support it.  You can look at the latest NEWS
file for info on what appeared when:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS


> As a separate related issue, I was try to echo the .FEATURES
> information, since one of the its it claims to display mentions its
> Else If capabilities. However, every time I tried to echo the data I
> received a syntax error. What would be an example of a Makefile
> contents which would display the .FEATURES information ?

There are a number of ways.  Here's one that works with newer versions
of GNU make (this is POSIX shell syntax):

 echo 'all: ; @echo FEATURES is $(.FEATURES)' | make -f-