[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Semantic strangeness in parsing makefiles
From: |
Alexandre Oliva |
Subject: |
Re: Semantic strangeness in parsing makefiles |
Date: |
11 Jul 2001 08:42:14 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) |
On Jul 11, 2001, "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:
> FOO = bar:baz
> $(FOO) biz : boz
> The new version of GNU make will parse the above as:
> bar:baz biz : boz
> where there are two targets: "bar:baz" and "biz", and one prerequisite,
> "boz".
This is excellent. It means there's finally a way to have a target
whose name contains a colon. Please don't go back to the original
behavior. I don't believe anybody can possibly expect that feature to
be reliable.
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer address@hidden, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp address@hidden, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me