Tim Rice via RT wrote: > 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: > ------------- > $ 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 > $ > ------------- >
Right, so on a non-GNU make system, you'd never build with "QUIET=y"... the Configure script should be able to take care of that. I'm still not understanding what the problem is. -Philip ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
