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bin/49097: make silently accepts tokens after .else
>Number: 49097
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: make silently accepts tokens after .else
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 11 05:00:00 +0000 2014
>Originator: David A. Holland
>Release: NetBSD 6.99.49 (20140811)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD valkyrie 6.99.28 NetBSD 6.99.28 (VALKYRIE) #14: Tue Dec 10
15:15:49 EST 2013 dholland@valkyrie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/VALKYRIE
amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Make silently accepts and ignores arbitrary tokens after .else. This is
weird but harmless in some cases, e.g.:
foo:
.if ${FOO} == "foo"
echo yes
.else guess not
echo no
.endif
but becomes a serious problem if one accidentally writes ".else if":
foo:
.if ${FOO} == "foo"
echo yes
.else if ${FOO} == "bar"
echo no
.endif
because this *looks* valid, it just silently doesn't do what one
expected.
Noted (and tripped on) by riastradh.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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