Bug in Makefile document

2009-12-08 Thread Sanjiv K. Bhatia
I just saw something in the Makefile document and thought you should know. On Page 14 of the manual (PDF version), in Section 3.5, the last paragraph of the section says: "See Section 8.2 [Text Functions], page 78, for more information on the word and words functions used above." It should read:

[bug #28230] $(eval) does not understand multiline

2009-12-08 Thread Stepan Koltsov
URL: Summary: $(eval) does not understand multiline Project: make Submitted by: yozh Submitted on: Tue 08 Dec 2009 06:53:47 PM GMT Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: None

[bug #28230] $(eval) does not understand multiline

2009-12-08 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28230 (project make): To quote the info pages: The `shell' function performs the same function that backquotes (``') perform in most shells: it does "command expansion". This means that it takes as an argument a shell command and evaluates to the output of the comm