possible bug in documentation for make

2008-10-25 Thread Daniela Rütting
bug-make@gnu.org. Hello, I found two problems which I think are bugs in the documentation for ’make’: 1) Limitations of redefining a variable inside a conditional are not clear. 2) The order, in which prerequisites are processed, is not clear. I refer to: Edition 0.55, last updated 04 April 2000,

Re: possible bug in documentation for make

2008-10-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 22:42 +0200, Daniela Rütting wrote: 1st problem: In an attempt to reduce tedious typing when defining a variable from the command line, I tried: ifeq (max,$(O)) O = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unroll-loops endif ifeq (,$(O)) O = -O endif CXXFLAGS = -W -Wall $(O)

Re: possible bug in documentation for make

2008-10-25 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Daniela Rütting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 1st problem: In an attempt to reduce tedious typing when defining a variable from the command line, I tried: ifeq (max,$(O)) O = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unroll-loops endif ifeq (,$(O)) O = -O endif

Re: possible bug in documentation for make

2008-10-25 Thread Martin Dorey
PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bug-make@gnu.org bug-make@gnu.org Sent: Sat Oct 25 13:42:55 2008 Subject: possible bug in documentation for make bug-make@gnu.org. Hello, I found two problems which I think are bugs in the documentation for ?make?: 1) Limitations of redefining a variable inside