Re: bin/15233: ([dM] make: .if broken inside .for)

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/15233; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/15233: ([dM] make: .if broken inside .for)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:07:26 +0000

 This happens because make only does a string comparison if the character
 after .if is '$' or '"' - but the substition of the loop control variable
 has already been done as part of the loop processing.
 
 cond.c rev 1.48 will also detect the == (or !=) following and do a
 comparison if present.
 
 The .for loop handling needs fixing though :-)
 
        David
 
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 David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost