On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> Stephen Henson via RT wrote:
> >
> > It's not the @ command which might be non-portable IMHO but the
> > expansion of $(Q) into @.
>
> I guess I still don't understand the issue. On the platforms that don't
> support this, it could be left undefined or set to the empty string...
>
> -Philip
It is easy to understand if you try it on a make other than GNU make.
Using your original post as an example:
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$ cat Makefile
QUIET=y
ifeq ($(QUIET),y)
Q:=@
else
Q:=
endif
all:
$(Q)echo "done"
$ make
UX:make: ERROR: Must be a separator on rules line 4 (bu39).
$ gmake
done
$
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