Re: Nested calls in make

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:56 +0530, kalyan wrote:
> I would assume it goes to infinite loop. But what happens to "echo
> $(1)" . I get nothing on the console :(

Make cannot invoke the shell until after it's completely expanded the
script that it is supposed to pass to the shell.

Since the expansion fails with an infinite recursion, it never gets to
the "invoking the shell" part, and so you don't see any output.

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