make(1) is broken?

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:11:13 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> mentioned:
> I think it is better not to rely on that side effect.  It
> isn't well documented and might change without notice in
> the future.

Thanks for explanation. I suppose, however, that .for behavior could
be used rather safely for it's well documented in make(1). According
to this manpage, it's not a side effect - .for loops always unrolled
and variable substitutions occurs.

Thanks for all answers! 

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Stanislav Sedov         MBSD labs, Inc.         <ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru>
Россия, Москва         http://mbsd.msk.ru

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