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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 16:48:28 +0100
From:      njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Bug in make?  Or not?
Message-ID:  <E0ygALU-0005tY-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>

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Hi,

Given:

[njs3@cnet0000 ~]$ cat Makefile 
FOO = bar
BAR = FOO
 
all:
	@echo ${${BAR}}

shouldn't ${${BAR}} evaluate to "bar"?

[njs3@cnet0000 ~]$ make
}
[njs3@cnet0000 ~]$ gmake
bar

I'll submit a PR for this unless anyone can convince me that this
isn't a bug.

Niall

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