On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Paul Smith wrote:
> the variable being defined. In fact nothing is parsed inside a
> define. I'm not sure, from your message, if this is what you feel is
> the surprising behavior;
Right - that's what surprised me. i assumed that comments were skipped
during the init
On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, so you've defined a variable, 'bogo', whose value consists of
> two lines, the first of which has a '#' as its first non-whitespace
> character. It isn't a comment at that point, it's ju
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:50 +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside a 'define', it is evaluated
> even if it is part of a comment.
Others have responded with all the info but I'm not sure everyone
understood it.
There are two factors at work here.
First, note that ma
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:50:32PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> Hi, Makers!
>
> i just discovered a Make behaviour which really surprises me. While that
> in itself is nothing new ;), this one certainly violates the principal
> of least astonishment:
>
> When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside
On 6/19/07, Agent Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
I think the test case to demonstrate this bug can be simplified as:
define bogo
# $(warning this should not happen)
endef
all:
$(bogo)
And make produces
$ make -f a.mk
a.mk:5: this should not happen
#
Yeah, it's really funny.
On 6/19/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside a 'define', it is evaluated even
if it is part of a comment.
The above statement is nonsensical. If something is inside a define,
is not inside a comment.
define bogo
# $(warning this should no
On 6/20/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside a 'define', it is evaluated even
if it is part of a comment. A demonstration:
I think the test case to demonstrate this bug can be simplified as:
define bogo
# $(warning this should not happen)
endef
Hi, Makers!
i just discovered a Make behaviour which really surprises me. While that
in itself is nothing new ;), this one certainly violates the principal
of least astonishment:
When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside a 'define', it is evaluated even
if it is part of a comment. A demonstratio
