Re: simple question about variables in a rule

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 16 May 2004, David Boyce wrote:

> I believe that with sufficiently modern versions of GNU make you could also 
> make use of "target-specific variables", e.g.
> 
> target: C = $A/$B

TMP = /tmp
mainpkg: BUILD_ROOT := ${TMP}/${PKG_NAME}
        ... rest of rule ...

which failed.  upon rereading, i then tried:

TMP = /tmp
mainpkg: BUILD_ROOT := ${TMP}/${PKG_NAME}
mainpkg:
        ... rest of rule ...

(putting the target-specific variable definition on the previous line
before the actual rule definition), and this worked fine.

perhaps i'm just being pedantic, but there's nothing in section 6.10
on this issue that jumps off the page and screams, "these definitions
must be on a separate line!".  just an observation.

and this solves my problem nicely, thanks.

rday