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From: | SF Markus Elfring |
Subject: | Re: Better description for "define"? |
Date: | Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:01:59 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 |
>> Would it help a bit to mention this information explicitly >> in the manual? > > I'm not sure what you mean. If you look up "define" in the GNU make > manual index: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Name-Index_fn_letter-D > > it will send you here: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Multi_002dLine > > which is an entire section describing this feature with examples, and > titled "Defining Multi-Line Variables". Now I notice that the indexes are different between the manual versions "one web page" and "page per node". Is there any more synchronisation needed for this documentation? Would a link be nice besides the paragraph "Variable definitions are parsed as follows:" from the section "3.7 How make Reads a Makefile" to the section "6.8 Defining Multi-Line Variables"? Regards, Markus
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