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From: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: make bug
Summary: two cents
Message-ID: <603@happym.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 23:13:58 GMT
References: <502@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <904@philmds.UUCP> <13312@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
Organization: Happy Man Corporation
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|| In article <502@Aragorn.dde.uucp> ct@dde.uucp (Claus Tondering) writes:
|| +---------------
|| |ALPHA = foo
|| |BETA  = $(ALPHA) bar
|| |
|| |all:
|| |	echo $(BETA:bar=hello)
|| |
|| |Running make with this makefile will result in the execution of the
|| |command "echo $(ALPHA) hello", which is certainly not what I would
|| |expect.

The make in Motorola's V/68 R2V2.3 exhibits this bug.

It is almost certainly unmodified, directly from AT&T's SVR2 tape.

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