Re: another make(1) .for loop problem

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

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:47:25PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > on a 5.99.5 system with make(1) built from todays soures, the attached
> > makefile fails:
> > 
> > $ make
> > testing VAR0: not defined
> > *** Error code 1
> > [...]
> 
> The test is to try it without the .for loop...
> 
> I'm fairly sure that:
>     .ifndef $(var)
> is actually the test:
>     .if $(var) != ""
> not:
>     .if defined($(var))
> 
> The .for loop now behaves the same way.

Of course, parsing the line that way isn't entirely useful :-)

        David

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