Re: Passing environment variables in reciepes

[David Boyce]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd change the makefile:
>
> -       fi
> -       @echo ${message}, $${message}, $message, $$message, eval $$message
> +       fi; \
> +       echo ${message}, $${message}, $message, $$message, eval $$message

Though it doesn't matter in this case, using ";" to join lines is a
bad and way-too-common pattern because it breaks basic make semantics.
Normally in the case

target:
        line 1
        line 2

make will fail if line 1 fails. Joining lines with ";" will change
that (unless you're using 3.82+ and running in POSIX mode). It's
almost always preferable to join lines with "&&". Consider

clean:
        cd $(TMP_DIR) ;\
        rm -rf *

-David Boyce