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Subject: Re: Make
In-Reply-To: <19990525101639.B20960@cygnus.com> from Geoffrey Noer at "May 25, 99 10:16:39 am"
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Glenn Spell <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
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Geoffrey Noer wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 1999, Richard Hickling wrote:  [...]
>
> > My 'make' does not support this feature.  I have been told the
> > newest ones should.

This feature is apparently supported as far back as make 3.75.

> > The info documentation on 'make' (that I have) does not mention
> > 'define'/'endef', however.  Thus, I was confused.

Just for the record, the info documentation distributed with
Cygwin B20.1 is for 'make' version 3.75 Beta and it does mention
define/endef.

You can search for those terms from within info or simply enter
"info make sequences" at the bash prompt.

> Future versions of Cygwin will include make 3.77 which is the
> latest version of GNU make.

-glenn

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