Re: recursive make example (was: Re: executing a rule prior to any targets?)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% gk <address@hidden> writes:

  g> The example there appears to have an error: I cannot find any definition 
  g> for use of special variable '$'.
  g> Manual says:
  g> $(SUBDIRS):
  g>          $(MAKE) -C $

  g> Shouldn't it read:
  g> $(SUBDIRS):
  g>          $(MAKE) -C $@

Yes, it should.

This has already been fixed in the latest version of the manual, shipped
with GNU make 3.80.

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