Running the makefile below should generate identical values of TEST_COREx
TEST_COREy and TEST_COREz but doesn't when running "make test" on Ubuntu
16.04 with make 4.1
TEST_COREz is always correct.
Oddly, this used to work about 6 months ago.
On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 19:38 -0700, warnerme wrote:
> TEST_COREx := $(if ifeq ($(shell expr $(TEST_CORE) \< $(NUM_CORES)),
> 1), $(TEST_CORE), $(shell expr $(NUM_CORES) - 1))
> TEST_COREy := $(if ifeq ($(shell expr $(TEST_CORE) \>= $(NUM_CORES)),
> 1), $(shell expr $(NUM_CORES) - 1), $(TEST_CORE))
I was reading make info documentation for the second time since a quite
long time now, and I suppose my english level has improved since this
time this bugged me:
* Variables Simplify:: Variables make makefiles simpler.
After overcoming the doubt caused by the uncommon use of a conjugated
sen
> mistaken transitive verb
I think we can take your testimony as a demonstration that it's an infelicitous
phrasing, which is the kind of useful insight that wouldn't occur to at least
this native English (and fluent make) speaker, but, for what it's worth, I
don't think it's a grammatical erro
