Re: bin/30967 (obscure corner-case bug in conditional handling in make)

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Subject: Re: bin/30967 (obscure corner-case bug in conditional handling in make)
From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:05:03 +0000 (UTC)

The following reply was made to PR bin/30967; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/30967 (obscure corner-case bug in conditional handling in make)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:03:43 +0000

 I've change make (cond.c 1.48) to treat .if A == A as a comparison.
 Without the whitespace it is all too hard!
 Makefile syntax rules are not well thought out.

        David

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 David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost

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