WTF? make is freaking me out

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ceri Davies wrote:

CD> Notwithstanding whether the patches do the correct thing or not, could
CD> someone please explain to me why formats1.diff works fine, whilst
CD> formats2.diff produces:
CD> 
CD>   line 191: Malformed conditional (html-split == "all")
CD>   line 147: if-less endif
CD>   make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
CD> 
CD> Please?

Possibly because assignment will be done at parsing phase, not at running 
phase?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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