Re: I need support with a planned POSIX make extension

[(Joerg Schilling) <schily%schily.net@localhost>]

Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:

> Am 12.07.2021 um 15:17 schrieb (Joerg Schilling):
> > Because o the problem with :=, POSIX introduced ::= instead.
> 
> Could you perhaps tell me where exacty "POSIX introduced ::="?  I looked
> in https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
> and could not find a single mention of ":=", even less "::=".

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html refers to 
the POSIX standard ISSUE 7.

The current text is in the draft 2 of ISSUE 8 (202x_d2.pdf), but that requires 
a login.

The original "bug" related to := was: 

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=330

Related other bugs are:

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1417
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1422
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1471

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Jörg

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