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Re: make- target specific variables


From: CHEN Cheng
Subject: Re: make- target specific variables
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 20:38:29 +0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:12:52AM +0530, Venkata Rajasekharu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> makefile:
> ---------------------
> 
> VAR = 1 $< 1
> all : VAR += 2 $< 2
> 
> all: makefile
>         echo $(VAR)
> 
> -------------------
> 
> bash-3.00$ make
> 1 1 2 makefile 2
> 
> Since VAR is a recursively defined variable its value should be evaluated
> during the command execution.
> 
> But why it is not
>     "1 makefile 1 2 makefile 2 "
> 

I get "1 makefile 1 2 makefile 2" as expected.

My gmake version is 3.81. Which version do you use?


Best,
Cheng




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