make has lots and lots of strange little idiosyncracies and things that I would even call bugs.<p>Take, for example,  a line from my current makefile:
LEFTPAREN:=(<p>It took me lots of studying the manual, googling and stackoverflowing to arrive at that &quot;solution&quot;.<p>Because there is no way to quote a left paren. There simply isn&#x27;t. And I&#x27;m grateful at least this stupid workaround is possible.