Re: make: eval template example bug?

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 12:33 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Hi together,
> 
> I have make 3.81 on a Debian stable machine. I tried out the example
> from the eval function given in
> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Eval-Function . The
> example *only* works for me if I remove the trailing '=' character, as
> provided in the patch below. If the '=' is present, it only tries to
> link non-existant object files. Did this behavior change in make 3.82?

Exactly.

You should always install and read the documentation on your local
system, that came with your distribution.  That way you'll have the
right version of the documentation for whatever version of the program
you distro is using.