"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <address@hidden>, address@hidden

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

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        This was reported by a debian user

 Please look at the following Makefile:

 address@hidden:~> cat -n bug.mak
      1  VAR = value;
      2  all:
      3          echo 1
      4          echo 2
      5          echo $(VAR}

 It contains a typo ('}' instead of ')' in line 5)
 Now running make on it:

 address@hidden:~> LANG=C make -f bug.mak
 bug.mak:3: *** unterminated variable reference.  Stop.

 You see, the line number reported in the first line of command block,
 not line number where the error is.

 I faced this when a typo was somewhere in a 100-line command block,
 that was full of variable references. It was not easy to find where
 the problem was.

        manoj

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