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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:09:47 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inconsistency in /usr/bin/make
Message-ID:  <20021014130947.GA93923@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021014121423.GB364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <20021014095718.GU364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021014113622.GA76880@sunbay.com> <20021014121423.GB364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:14:23PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # ru@FreeBSD.ORG / 2002-10-14 14:36:22 +0300:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:57:18AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > In any event, could someone point me to a place in the make(1) man pa=
ge
> > > where it says that the S and C modifiers dereference variables given =
in
> > > both the pattern and replacement, while the N and M modifiers insist =
on
> > > being fed literal strings? I couldn't find it. Thanks! :)
> >=20
> > The last paragraph of the S modifier talks about variable expansion
> > inside the "old_string" and "new_string".  There is no similar talk
> > in the M and N descriptions.  Even the OpenBSD's make(1) is subject
> > to this same restriction.
>=20
>    Ok, so that's the missing part. Anyway, is there a technical reason
>    why this is so?
>=20
Yes, there is.  You forgot to send us the patch.  :-)


Cheers,
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