Re: about immediate and deferred variable assignment in GNU make

[Lin George]

Thank Paul,

 

 

> Doh. I mean "when the _recursive_ variable was assigned."

 

I think you mean assigned when you mentioned "referenced". Correct?

 

 

regards,

George

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:

%% I wrote:

pds> A recursive variable (expansion is deferred) will have to be
pds> expanded every time the variable is referenced. Any variables in
pds> the value expand to their CURRENT values, not what they were when
pds> the simple variable was assigned.

Doh. I mean "when the _recursive_ variable was assigned."

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