Bug#846312: vim package fails to build with missing man files

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Mon Dec 5 01:38:54 UTC 2016


On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:07:28PM +0000, David Barnett wrote:
> Turns out the problem was that I was building with make 3.81, which doesn't
> support the trailing "=" syntax in "define VAR =" (and for some reason silently
> ignores the whole block?).

Thanks for tracking that down!  I didn't realize that was something new
to 3.81.  It's the first time I've used the "define" construct.

> Just deleting that one = sign makes everything work
> for me. Would it be okay to remove that and maintain 3.81 compatibility just a
> little longer?

I'd be perfectly fine with changing that. :)

Cheers,
-- 
James
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