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Re: unable to understand $(origin)


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: unable to understand $(origin)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:12:13 -0400

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 03:17 -0700, Payal wrote:
> default : 
>     # It is coming from $(origin, obj)
>
> What is wrong here? I have re-read the make manual for this w/o any
> success.

Read more carefully.  In computers, every character matters.

> The syntax of the `origin' function is:
> 
>      $(origin VARIABLE)

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