Re: a small question about subst

[John Graham-Cumming]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:18 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> Without seeing your code, I can only assume that you are trying to do
> this in the command section of a rule.  If that is the case, you'll need
> to use sed or something similar.  The GNU make functions will be
> processed when the files are read and not when the targets are run.  At
> that time, $< has no value and your statements evaluate to the empty
> string.

Sorry, that's totally wrong.  

The commands within a rule are not expanded/substituted until they are
needed (i.e. just before the rule's commands are about to be executed)
and hence $< etc. are perfectly valid within a rule.  There's no need to
use sed.  

John.
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