Documentation error

[mohamed hassanine aissa]

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Dear Sir or Madam,
I think i've found a little error in the documentation of GNU make:
section  : 9.5 Overriding Variables
 
citation "An argument that contains `=' specifies the value of a variable: `v=x' sets the value of the variable v to x"
 
error: v=x sets the value of the variable x to v and not v to x.
yours

 

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[Paul Smith-20]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:01 +0100, mohamed hassanine aissa wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> I think i've found a little error in the documentation of GNU make:
> section  : 9.5 Overriding Variables
>  
> citation "An argument that contains `=' specifies the value of a
> variable: `v=x' sets the value of the variable v to x"
>  
> error: v=x sets the value of the variable x to v and not v to x.
> yours

Nope, I think the docs are right.  v=x sets the value of the variable
named "v" to the value "x", which is what the docs say.

In other words, FOO=bar sets the (value of the) variable FOO to the
string "bar".

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