the RHS of the assignment expands to a reference to the LHS.
#
# PostgreSQL documentation makefile
#
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.95 2007/02/09 15:55:57 petere Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.96 2007/02/09 20:40:13 neilc Exp $
#
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@$(MAKE) DRAFT="Y" html
-COLLATEINDEX = LC_ALL=C $(PERL) $(COLLATEINDEX) -f -g
+COLLATEINDEX := LC_ALL=C $(PERL) $(COLLATEINDEX) -f -g
# bookindex.sgml is required so there is a proper index for all output formats
bookindex.sgml: HTML.index