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Re: why not warn for miswritten Make $() functions?
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: why not warn for miswritten Make $() functions? |
Date: |
11 Apr 2002 21:18:30 -0400 |
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%% address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:
dj> In make
dj> echo $(addprefix xxx,mmmm)
dj> is the right was do use addprefix. But why don't I see any warnings
dj> when I do
dj> echo $(addprefix,xxx,mmmm)
dj> Why not warn instead of in one ear and out the other, hear no evil,
dj> see no evil...?
Because there is absolutely nothing wrong with either of those two
invocations, and so no way that make can determine that you made a
mistake.
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