Package: make Version: 3.81-8.2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream make ignores it when an undefined function is used in a makefile, and just substitutes the empty string for the function call. Instead, it really, really should fail and report a faulty makefile. Especially because there are no user-defined functions so this unfriendly behavior doesn't even buy anything in flexibility.
I have just spent an hour or so debugging a 20 line makefile. I used the dirname function in one of my rules, only I forgot that for make it is spelled just $(dir ...) and not ($dirname ...) . I was at the point of throwing something at my computer, and I'm exaggerating only a tiny little bit. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.10.63.3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages make depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u6 make recommends no packages. Versions of packages make suggests: pn make-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
