On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2012-06-24 at 13:00 +0200, Christoph Schulz wrote:
Hello!
Phil Pennock schrieb am Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:45:59 -0700:
I'm just unclear on the age of ?=
support in GNU Mkae.
From [1]:
1998-03-02 Paul D. Smith <[email protected]>
* variable.c (try_variable_definition): Implement ?=.
That would mean it is supported from 3.76.90 on, which was released on
1998-05-20, also according to [1].
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.7 (Boron)
# make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This program built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
--- 8<
So we should be OK with current (5.8) RHEL5 systems.
Looking at my incomplete archive 5.5 had the same 3.81 make package
and RHEL5 contains a source package for make 3.81 built in Jan 2007.
Okay, so there's a 50/50 chance RedHat RHEL5 supports it then. :)
/me runs
So you got lucky this time :-)
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