Re: make: Unclosed variable specification for

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

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:10:29AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> 
> I worked around the problem after removal of a "\ " that was part of the 
> PKG_USER variable
> 
> PKG_USERS=              ${AVAHI_USER}:${AVAHI_GROUP}::Avahi\ user:/nonexistent
> 
> which was changed to
> 
> PKG_USERS=              ${AVAHI_USER}:${AVAHI_GROUP}::Avahi:/nonexistent
> 
> I haven't had a look at the parser, its 2:00am and just finishing compilation 
> of VLC, the original task on hand.

You really don't want to give make anything that contains space characters.
They do rather get used as a global separator.
In general make syntax has to way to escape spaces (or other characters)
- except for a few very specific places in variable modifiers.

The '\' in your assignment probably only has any effect when the data
is finally parsed by a shell.

Quite what the pkgsrc makefiles are doing with PKG_USERS that acyually
causes grief can be hard to detect. But I suspect that a ' ' in a
modifier that is used when generating a variable name won't be liked.

        David

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