Re: make(1) bug or pkgsrc bug?

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:06:42PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > > make: Unclosed substitution for  (/ missing)
 > 
 > One of these seems to come from fetch.mk.

Simpler form of the test case:

fetchfile=xyz
SITES.${fetchfile:S/=/--/}= http://host/
all:
        echo ${SITES.xyz}
        echo ${SITES.}

and it's definitely a make bug. It's tripping on the = in the
substitution and assigning
        /--/}= http://host/
to
        SITES.${fetchfile:S/ 
which becomes just "SITES."

The simpler form (without the for loop) breaks on older versions of
make too. :-|

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost