Re: What does "..=../" do?

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 10:06 -0500, Steve Kenton wrote:
> but what does the "..=../" do?
> 
> I have been unable to find any reference to a special variable ".."

There is no special variable ".." (although in POSIX, all variable names
beginning with "." are allowed to be used by the implementation; GNU
make doesn't use this one).

This just sets the variable ".." to the value "../", like any other
variable setting would.  So, when the variable reference $(..) appears
it will be expanded to the string "../".

Just like any other variable.

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