Thanks for your polite report. I think you've been bitten by one of
make's design quirks, documented by this section in the manual ($< is an
"automatic" variable):
Conditional Statements
--
All instances of conditional syntax are parsed immediately, in their
entirety;
Hello bug-make readers,
I noticed a couple of typos in the make manual.
Cheers,
Ralf
* doc/make.texi: Fix some typos.
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dear gnu,
thanks for developing gnu make. i rely on it daily.
i was trying to extend my makefiles recently and found what looks to
me like a bug. i'm including an example makefile that's hopefully
stripped down enough.
what i was expecting is that a variable name could be constructed
withi