Re: make best practises: parentheses for variable names

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  >> p.s.  chances are, there will be several more picky questions coming
  >> as i'm just working my way thru ORA's 3rd edition of "managing
  >> projects with gnu make", just filling in all the holes.

  ny> IMNSHO, that's the worst book on make I"ve ever seen.
  ny> Unfortunately, aside from the FSF publication of the info files,
  ny> it's the only one I've ever seen.

Really?  I'd be interested to hear the problems you had with it.

I*M*NSHO, it's quite good.  I recommend it to anyone who needs to get
beyond the straightforward reference information you find in the GNU
make user's manual.


Cheers!

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