Re: order of evaluation

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Dan DeJohn <address@hidden> writes:

  dd> In the list of commands for a rule, I want to execute a particular
  dd> command (mv a file) only if one of the previous commands created
  dd> the file.

All lines of a command script are evaluated at once, right before the
first line is executed.

So, the $(if ...) and $(wildcard ...) functions are being evaluated
before the touch command is run.

  dd> don't know how to get the proper conditional execution of my mv
  dd> command.

You'll have to use shell constructs, not make constructs, to do what you
want:

  all:
      touch xxx.abc
      @if [ -f xxx.abc ]; then echo YES; else echo NO; fi

or something like that.

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