Re: address@hidden as a dependency

[Orna Agmon]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Orna Agmon <address@hidden> writes:
>
> oa> orna: address@hidden
>
> This syntax ($$@) is not supported by GNU make (or rather, it is
> acceptable but doesn't mean what you want it to mean).
>
> oa> According to the gmake documentation, this was supposed to work,
>
> Actually, the GNU make documentation explicitly lists this as a feature
> that does _NOT_ work, in the section in incompatibilities and missing
> features.Where did you see it lists as "should work"?

In the wrong man page.

gmake was installed under the name of make, but the man pages for make
were the man pages of the OSF1 make. (I used the man becaue the info was
not properly installed)

Sorry, thank you, and -
Back to the drawing board...



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