On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 11:03 -0800, Mark Brown wrote: > I had a make.exe 3.80 and it had problems with "else ifeq" > constructs, so that forced me to seek a more recent version for win32.
Yes that version didn't support it. You can look at the latest NEWS file for info on what appeared when: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS > As a separate related issue, I was try to echo the .FEATURES > information, since one of the its it claims to display mentions its > Else If capabilities. However, every time I tried to echo the data I > received a syntax error. What would be an example of a Makefile > contents which would display the .FEATURES information ? There are a number of ways. Here's one that works with newer versions of GNU make (this is POSIX shell syntax): echo 'all: ; @echo FEATURES is $(.FEATURES)' | make -f- _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make