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Re: immediate/defered variables


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: immediate/defered variables
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:05:23 -0500

%% Der Herr Hofrat <address@hidden> writes:

  dhh> I assume my concept of immediate vs. defered is wrong

No, you have that right (I assume).

Your concept of how make handles globbing is incorrect.  Make doesn't
expand globbing sequences like *.c, it always passes them to the shell
verbatim.

The _only_ thing make expands are variables and functions.

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