David Boyce wrote: > Though it doesn't matter in this case, using ";" to join lines is a > bad and way-too-common pattern because it breaks basic make semantics. > Normally in the case > > target: > line 1 > line 2 > > make will fail if line 1 fails. Joining lines with ";" will change > that (unless you're using 3.82+ and running in POSIX mode). It's > almost always preferable to join lines with "&&". Consider
Good point ... > clean: > cd $(TMP_DIR) ;\ > rm -rf * ... and an even better example ... :-) _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
