On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Daniel Wagenaar <d...@caltech.edu> wrote: > I appreciate your correction, but I still feel that the documentation on the > website would be more helpful if it at least mentioned that older versions > of make fail quietly when there is a "=" at the end of the line. The reason > is that make v. 3.81 is still in very wide use. For instance, it is part of > Ubuntu 12.04-LTS as well as Mint 14.
That sounds like a bug in Ubuntu. Or maybe it's just a consequence of the choice of selecting a Long Term Support release. Meanwhile, other people complain that the docs are too long; adding "this feature was added in 3.8x" throughout the guide just makes it longer and harder to read. It's not a costless addition. The documentation for the program on your box is on your box. WTP? Philip _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
