makefile if/then/else

[Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>]

  Can someone give me an example of how to do if/then/else in a makefile?  I
followed the example in the make info page, but it doesn't seem to work for
me.

  Here's what I tried (for mpg123, if that matters)

ARCH=$(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture)

build:
	ifeq ($(ARCH),i486)
		make linux
	else
		make linux-$(ARCH)
	endif
	touch build

  .. and I get the error:

/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(i486,i386)'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: `ifeq (i486,i386)'
make: *** [build] Error 2

  Why does make pass the ifeq line to a shell?

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