Re: bin/39802: make(1) :? modifier does not work

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

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:35:02PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>  
>  :? expands the variable to its left and treats the contents as a conditional.

Wrong! The code passes v->name through to the condition code.
This means that the value is discared, so any modifiers to the
value have no effect.

Which all means that ${foo:Mbah?:bar:baz} ends up being the same 
as ".if foo" which is (until recently undocumented) the same
as ".ifdef foo" ie ".if defined(foo)" and likely to be true.

A long time ago (prior to xmas day 2001) it process the expanded
variable.

        David

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