BSD make -- Malformed conditional

[Matthew Seaman]

On 27/01/2012 16:51, Chris Rees wrote:
>> .for item in ${LIST}
>> > .if ${item} == "this"  # Ooops

> You shouldn't use quotes either.

I think that not quoting might be better style, but it's not the typical
usage in make(1).  There are quite a few contrary examples in the ports:

% < /tmp/ports-makefiles xargs grep '} == "' | wc -l
    1674
% < /tmp/ports-makefiles xargs grep '} == [^"]' | wc -l
     531

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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