Re: about immediate and deferred variable assignment in GNU make

[Lin George]

Thanks Paul!


I have got it. I made a mis-understanding before. :-)


regards,
George

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

> %% Lin George <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   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.
> 
>   pds> Doh. I mean "when the _recursive_ variable
> was assigned."
>    
>   lg> I think you mean assigned when you mentioned
> "referenced". Correct?
> 
> No.
> 
> See my message from yesterday on the difference
> between "assigned" and
> "referenced".
> 
> -- 
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