Re: deferred evaulation of function calls

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  >> If you modify the contents of a directory "behind make's back" then
  >> things like wildcard, etc. may not work properly since they operate on
  >> the cached version not the real directory contents.

  rpjd> ah, so what this tells me is that, if i want to match a wildcard
  rpjd> pattern and i use the wildcard() function, there really is no
  rpjd> effective difference if i do that at the top of my makefile with
  rpjd> either of:

Hm.  Really, it's not that determinant... it depends on when the caching
is done.  Unfortunately.  The directory cache is a big time savings but
it also leads to a lot of non-intuitive behavior.  I'm more and more
ambivalent about it.

You can always use:

    files := $(shell echo *o)

if you want to be sure you're getting what's _really_ in the directory.

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