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Re: = or no = in multiline variable assignments?


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: = or no = in multiline variable assignments?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:10:12 -0500

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:33 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> "You may omit the variable assignment operator if you prefer. If
> omitted, make assumes it to be '=' and creates a recursively-expanded
> variable"
> 
> This does not appear to work. [...] when I put "=" after VAR, I get
> nothing.  
> 
> Why??

It works for me.

Are you sure you're using GNU make 3.82?  This feature was added in that
release.

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