Re: Query: Regarding gmake 3.79.1

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  bg> I was trying to call a function recursively within itself in a
  bg> makefile. But the makefile implementation do not allow to call it
  bg> recursively. Is there any other short cut to call a recursive
  bg> function.

Do you mean variables? I don't recall any restrictions on calling
functions recursively.

Recursive variable references are disallowed because there is no way to
stop the recursion: it will just recurse forever until make runs out of
memory and dies.

You'll have to give an example.

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