Re: Extraneous text after `else' directive

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 19:14 -0700, Michael Morrell wrote:
> If, however, I "break" it by deleting the space after "ifeq":
> --------------------------
> ifdef FOO
>     XYZ = 1
> else ifeq("$(BAR)", "abc")
>     XYZ = 2
> else
>     XYZ = 3
> endif

> % FOO=a make
> Makefile:3: Extraneous text after `else' directive
> 1

> 1) Is it just me, or is the manual not that clear that a space after
> "ifeq" is required?

Well, it doesn't say so explicitly however all the examples and the
section that defines the syntax ("Syntax of Conditionals") use
whitespace.

> 2) Is there a way to have this case cause make to fail (return an exit
> status of 1)?  The note about "Extraneous text" is easy to miss in a
> large Makefile output file.

There is no way to do that currently (except changing the source of
course).  However, maybe it's not a bad idea to make this a fatal syntax
error rather than a warning / informational note.

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