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Re: catching build problems
On Mar 31, 2000, "Lars J. Aas" <larsa@sim.no> wrote:
> : The trap is fine, but the `:=' syntax is far from portable.
> Without it, wouldn't the variable become recursive?
Yep. That's why you can't do it like that :-(
It might work to set MAKE_TRAP as you suggested, and then use
$(MAKE_TRAP) for recursive invocations.
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