Follow-up Comment #3, bug #31326 (project make): There's nothing make can do about this, that I can see. If your variable contains invalid syntax for a target then you won't see a problem until the variable is used in a target context, and that's where the error will happen.
I suppose make could print the contents of the line, as well as the line number, so you could see what the expanded line looked like to make when it failed. Or something like that. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31326> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make