Is the :u behaves normal or not (a bug) in the make?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jeremy Messenger
<mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> While I was working on add the :build/:run feature in the
> bsd.gnome.mk. I got a bug where it will running some dependencies got
> duplicate. Thanks to the make(1) that shows me the :u feature to get
> rid of the duplicates. But it doesn't exactly help unless I use the :O
> to get the words in order to make the :u works. I am not sure if it's
> just limited on how it works (normal) or it's a bug. Here's an example
> test:
>
> -----------------------------
> USE_TEST=       foo bar bar foobar foo
> USE_TEST1=      foo bar bar foobar foo
>
> test:
>         @${ECHO_CMD} "USE_TEST: " ${USE_TEST:u}
>         @${ECHO_CMD} "USE_TEST1: " ${USE_TEST1:O:u}
> -----------------------------
>
> Here's result:
> -----------------------------
> # make test
> USE_TEST:  foo bar foobar foo
> USE_TEST1:  bar foo foobar
> -----------------------------

BTW:

# uname -a
FreeBSD outlaws.localhost 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 31
12:43:40 CDT 2012
mezz at outlaws.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

> Thanks,
> Mezz


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