Re: Variable order of operations

[Harvey Chapman]

Philip Guenther wrote:

> BTW, when invoking make recursively, you almost certainly should use
> $(MAKE) instead of just 'make'.  This has two effects:

Thanks for the tip. I'll make that change.

> What behavior makes you say that the ifeq is being evaluated after the
> 'cgi' target?

Sorry, I should've attached output.

> So it seems to be working for me.  What do you get when you try that?
> Also, what's the output of "make --version"?

GNU Make 3.81

With debugging: Notice the "HIDE=" that prints after the "cgi" target.

address@hidden:~/nm_test_backup/webgui$ DEBUG=1 make
Building...  cgi
DEBUG="1" GUMSTIX="" BUILD_ARM="" CC="cc" CXX="g++" AR="ar" make -C cgi
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
Makefile:21: "Calculating buildroot location..."
rm -f .depend
/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi/../../../gsbr/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-g++ 

-I/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi/../../../gsbr/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/include/libgd 
-Wall -Wundef -rdynamic -I../..  -M nbcuicommands.cc 
spectrumpushscript.cc nbcstatus.cc socket_client.cc log.cc 
../../timer.cpp ../../timer_handler.cpp >> .depend
/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi/../../../gsbr/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc 
-I/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi/../../../gsbr/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/include/libgd 
-Wall -Wundef -rdynamic -I../..  -O -ggdb	 
-I/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi/../../../gsbr/build_arm_nofpu/staging_dir/include/libgd 
-Wall -Wundef -rdynamic -I../..  -M specgen.c >> .depend
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
HIDE=







DEBUG="1" GUMSTIX="0" BUILD_ARM="" CC="ccache cc" CXX="ccache g++" 
AR="ccache ar" make -C webgui
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui'
Building...  cgi
DEBUG="1" GUMSTIX="0" BUILD_ARM="" CC="ccache cc" CXX="ccache g++" 
AR="ccache ar" make -C cgi
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
...
...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
HIDE=
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui'



Without debugging: Notice the "HIDE=@" that prints after the "cgi" target.


DEBUG="0" GUMSTIX="0" BUILD_ARM="" CC="ccache cc" CXX="ccache g++" 
AR="ccache ar" make -C webgui
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui'
Building...  cgi
DEBUG="0" GUMSTIX="0" BUILD_ARM="" CC="ccache cc" CXX="ccache g++" 
AR="ccache ar" make -C cgi
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui/cgi'
HIDE=@
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hchapman/nm_test_backup/webgui'