Re: Better description for "define"?

[Tim Murphy]

define..endef allows you to assign multi-line values to a variable.

Regards,

Tim

On 6 January 2015 at 11:57, SF Markus Elfring <address@hidden> wrote:

> The "define" construct is already in the index.

I am missing an explanation there for the aspect when the construct "define … endef"
should be used instead of the other variants for variable assignments.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Reading-Makefiles.html#index-define_002c-expansion

A corresponding implementation detail might not be as obvious here for me
as for other make users.

Regards,
Markus

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