On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 08:20 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > For instance, if there’s an occurence of $(several words) in the > makefile, and the variable “several words” isn’t defined (that’s not a > natural thing to do anyway), taking its firstword, and being equivalent > to $(call several,words) might improve readability, be simpler, > etc. then why not?
For a long time it was perfectly legal to create variable names that contained whitespace; this would work: some variable = foo all: ; @echo $(some variable) gives you "foo". A few releases ago I made it illegal to create variable names containing spaces so the above makefile no longer works. My intention at that time was to allow a shorthand for "call" such as you suggest, but I haven't made that change yet. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
