Re: GNU Make documentation example error

[Martin Dorey]

Looks like the report in:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2021-01/msg00016.html

... only this time without any version number.  The answer a couple of weeks ago was:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2021-01/msg00017.html

(I couldn't find it with Google, even though I remembered it, though I failed to find a robots.txt preventing it from indexing the mailing list archive.)

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Subject: GNU Make documentation example error

 

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Dear GNU maintainers,

I think there may be a mistake in the section “5.8 Defining Canned Recipes” of the GNU Make manual: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">.
The examples show the “define” directive followed by an equals sign (“=“), however for me it only works once I remove the equals sign as shown in the section on defining multi-line variables: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">.
Interestingly, even that section contains an example where the equals sign is used (at the bottom of the section) and it likewise only works once I remove the equals sign.

Best,
Nikolai