Re: pathsearch in the manual

[Paul D. Smith]

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  yi> Untill I discovered:  it should be addsuffix  !!!

This typo in the manual was fixed for the last round of publication, but
I guess that version isn't available on the web yet.

  yi> anyhow:  why didn't make complain for an unknown function ????

There's no such thing as an unknown function.  If the contents of
$(....) are not a valid builtin function, then they're treated as if
they were a make variable--even if the "variable" name contains
whitespace.

And there's normally no complaint about expanding variables which have
not been defined.


It's probably worth adding a warning if the variable name contains
whitespace, because while it is possible to create a variable with a
name containing whitespace (IIRC), it's very hard to do.

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