[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

[padavo]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #40159 (project make):

My apologies for the stupid broken markup ... I gambled and lost :)

This is a repost of comment #10.

Summary: 
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The procedure at comment #9 fixes the bug !
I will submit a Debian bugreport.

Procedure #1: Without the patch, the bug occurs
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apt-get build-dep make
apt-get source make
cd make-dfsg-3.81/
dpkg-buildpackage -nc -us -uc
./make -R -r -f /home/david/work/src/c/make/lab/80-bug/clean/Makefile
/home/david/work/src/c/make/lab/80-bug/clean/Makefile:15: *** unterminated
variable reference.  Stop.

Procedure #2: With the patch, the bug is gone
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wget -O - https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=23309 | patch
-p1
make
./make -R -r -f /home/david/work/src/c/make/lab/80-bug/clean/Makefile
bug/clean/Makefile:15:  i
(snip repeated lines)
make: Nothing to be done for `dummy'.



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