RE: Passing environment variables in reciepes

[Warlich, Christof]

David Boyce wrote:
> 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

Good point ...

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

... and an even better example ... :-)