Fix Savannah bug #1454: skip over semicolons (and comments) inside variable

references in target definition lines.

tests/scripts/misc/general3

@@ -5,13 +5,7 @@ This tests random features of the parser that need to be supported, and
 which have either broken at some point in the past or seem likely to
 break.";
 
-$makefile2 = &get_tmpfile;
-
-open(MAKEFILE,"> $makefile");
-
-# The contents of the Makefile ...
-
-print MAKEFILE <<EOF;
+run_make_test("
 # We want to allow both empty commands _and_ commands that resolve to empty.
 EMPTY =
 
@@ -31,20 +25,15 @@ TAB =   \t  \# A TAB and some spaces
 
 \$(STR)
 
-\$(STR) \$(TAB)
-
-EOF
-
-close(MAKEFILE);
-
-&run_make_with_options($makefile,"",&get_logfile);
-$answer = "$make_name: Nothing to be done for `all'.\n";
-&compare_output($answer,&get_logfile(1));
-
+\$(STR) \$(TAB)",
+              '', "#MAKE#: Nothing to be done for `all'.");
 
 # TEST 2
 
 # Make sure files without trailing newlines are handled properly.
+# Have to use the old style invocation to test this.
+
+$makefile2 = &get_tmpfile;
 
 open(MAKEFILE, "> $makefile2");
 print MAKEFILE "all:;\@echo FOO = \$(FOO)\nFOO = foo";
@@ -54,5 +43,14 @@ close(MAKEFILE);
 $answer = "FOO = foo\n";
 &compare_output($answer,&get_logfile(1));
 
+# TEST 3
+
+# Check semicolons in variable references
+
+run_make_test('
+$(if true,$(info true; true))
+all: ; @:
+',
+              '', 'true; true');
 
 1;