Remaking included makefile fails under GNU/Linux

2005-07-29 Thread thibaud . dot . gaillard . at . nto . dot . atmel . dot . com
Hello GNU Make maintainers, I may have found the following statement from make.info to be false: > How Makefiles Are Remade > > >Sometimes makefiles can be remade from other files, such as RCS or > SCCS files. If a makefile can be remade from other files, y

Re: [bug #13952] Remaking included makefile fails under Linux RedHat 7.3 while working under Solaris 2.6

2005-07-29 Thread Thibaud Gaillard
Hello Paul, Thanks for your answer. > > It's extremely difficult to understand the test case you've provided: it's > good that you put effort into it but please keep the test cases as small and > simple as possible, removing all non-essential stuff, and please describe > precisely how the test c

comments in eval

2005-07-29 Thread Jonathan Baccash
With GNU make 3.81-beta3, I try this makefile: define myvar # $(error blah) endef $(eval $(myvar)) And I get: Makefile:4: *** blah. Stop. Shouldn't the commented error call be ignored? Jon. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gn

Re: comments in eval

2005-07-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jonathan Baccash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jb> With GNU make 3.81-beta3, I try this makefile: jb> define myvar jb> # $(error blah) jb> endef jb> $(eval $(myvar)) jb> And I get: jb> Makefile:4: *** blah. Stop. jb> Shouldn't the commented error call be ignored? No, because