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Re: building 'master' branch from github...

From: Michael Felt <michael_at_felt.demon.nl>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:21:14 +0100

On 12/11/2017 20:38, Ray Satiro via curl-library wrote:
> On 11/12/2017 7:27 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
>> "makefile", line 3214: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or
>> double colon operator.
>> May be += operator present
>> Global:AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --disable-code-coverage
>>
>> Seems the killer here is the += operator - coming from somewhere.
>>
>> As a simple test - I just deleted the lines 3184,$
>>
>> And - make seems to work fine.
> The line you refer to was added in
> https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/18eac3d
>
> There is a lot of information in your report but I don't understand what
> you are reporting. Can you explain this in a more concise way, and
> possibly include a patch? I don't understand how += is causing an error

my guess is that "POSIX" make does not support +=, and that is why the
make -d output mentions that.

Tomorrow - I'll try removing ONLY the the line(s) with += and see if it
parses.

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