Re: Questionable line number in a message "missing separator"?

[Philip Guenther]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:52 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Of course, if you had actually quoted the relevant lines from your
>> Makefile, we could be more precise.
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> Do you get further ideas from an excerpt of my build script 
> "parallel-inc.make"?
>
> Lines 241 - 256:
> $(EXIT_CODES_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS) \
> $(RESULT_SQL_DATABASE_NOTIFICATION3) \
> $(RUN_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS): \
> initialise_database \
> $(BUILD_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS) \
> $(HEADER_SEARCH_PARTS)
>         $(if 
> $(LET_RUN_FIND_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS_PARALLEL),\
> $(eval 
> LET_RUN_FIND_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS_PARALLEL::=)$(eval
>  $(call HANDLE_BACKGROUND_TASK,\
> $(RESULT_SQL_DATABASE_NOTIFICATION3),\
> $(RUN_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS),\
> $(BUILD_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS),\
> $(EXIT_CODES_FUNCTIONS_THAT_CHECK_THEIR_SINGLE_PARAMETER_IN_HEADERS))))
>
> find_functions_that_check_their_single_parameter_in_headers_with_parallel_groups:
>  \
> $(RESULT_SQL_DATABASE_NOTIFICATION3)
>         @$(ECHO) 'Header files were analysed.'

<wipes tears from eyes>

So that $(eval $(call GIBBERISH)) is wrong.  Exactly *how* it's wrong
depends on what the $(call) is supposed to return.  Currently you're
evaling something that doesn't look like a *STANDALONE* chunk of
Makefile, which results in the error *in the eval*.


Paul, I still think $(eval) should have been named
$(stick-arm-in-woodchipper), to make it less seductive to people
trying to layer imperative programming on the declarative nature of
make.


Philip Guenther