Re: pkg/46570 (infelicities in pkglint)

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46570; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46570 (infelicities in pkglint)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:53:09 +0000

 On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 06:20:04PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
  >>  2) It did not throw an error on this line:
  >>  
  >>  ${EGDIR/apparmor.d ${EGDIR/dbus-1/system.d ${EGDIR/pam.d
  >>  
  >>  Non-closed braces need to throw an error.
  >  
  >  It can't be a complete Makefile parser, and even make(1) doesn't
  >  complain about
  >  FOO= ${EGDIR/apparmor.d ${EGDIR/dbus-1/system.d ${EGDIR/pam.d
  >  
  >  I see this as WONTFIX.
 
 Well, it could be a complete makefile parser. But even if not, I think
 this is actually a moderately important thing to check for, if only
 because make *doesn't* always do it right and it's an easy typo to
 make.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost