Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64259 (project make): Commit 07fcee35f058a876447c8a021f9eb1943f902534 introduced a regression.
The text in NEWS clarifies that the idea was to never consider a line starting with the recipe prefix as a conditional, to ensure make does not confuse recipe lines with conditionals as described in sv 64185. However, there are cases where the fix 1. Still considers lines starting with the recipe prefix as conditionals. 2. Ignores lines which it should not ignore. In this makefile both 'ifdef blah' and 'else' are intended with tabs. $ ls makefile $ cat makefile ifdef blah $(info true) else $(info false) endif all: $ make-4.4 false make-4.4: Nothing to be done for 'all'. $ # this is the latest make from master $ ~/src/gmake/make/m64/make make: Nothing to be done for 'all'. We can see the latest make 1. honored 'ifdef blah', even though it is intended with a tab. 2. failed to run '$(info false)'. The patch in the attachment causes make to fail with a syntax error here. The patch keeps NEWS intact. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64259> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/