ifneq gnumake bug

[Jeremy Broughton]

I have the following sample makefile, which seems to produce the following
erroneous output, using the cygwin version 1.3.10:

makefile:

target1.txt : dependency1.exists

target1.txt target2.txt :
ifneq "" "$^"
      @echo $^
else
      @echo this doesn't seem empty to me:  $^
endif


Output:

D:\>gnumake target1.txt
This doesn't seem empty to me: dependency1.exists


Do you know if this is fixed in a newer cygwin release?

Thanks.

Jeremy Broughton
Software Developer, IBM DB2 Development Environment
Phone: 905-413-2348   e-mail: address@hidden