Re: is this a make bug?

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

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 08:03:37PM +0000, Simon Gerraty wrote:
 > >  > FOO := bar:S/zop/flop/
 > >  > 
 > >  > for which the output you got would be correct.
 > >  > 
 > >  > >   bar:S/zop/flop/
 > > 
 > > Well, yes, that's what it does; the question is whether it's
 > > intended/expected for this to be a special case of parsing modifiers
 > > where an unescaped colon doesn't introduce the next one.
 > 
 > Yes it is intended.  ::= is supposed to behave like := etc
 > Perhaps the man page isn't clear enough

I don't understand what you mean - I know it's supposed to behave like := 
but I don't know/see what that has to do with modifier parsing.

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David A. Holland
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