Re: why isn't command expansion deferred?? (stupid question probably)

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 03:31 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> Hello,  the manual says, that commands are always expanded deferred.
> OK, I have this makefile
> 
> foobar:
>               touch foobar
>               echo $(wildcard foobar)
> 
> Then why is this:
> 
> C:\Temp>del foobar
> 
> C:\Temp>make foobar
> touch foobar
> echo
> ECHO is off. 
> 
> I was expecting it would echo foobar!  How do I make $(wildcard...)
> evaluate when it is being called from a command?

Hi Mark.  Please start a new thread when asking a new question, rather
than replying to an existing, unrelated thread.  Thanks!

The expansion of variables and functions in a recipe is deferred...
until the recipe is invoked.  The entire recipe, including all lines, is
expanded when make decides to run the rule.

Therefore, when make expands the recipe, "foobar" doesn't exist yet and
so the wildcard gets nothing back.

To do things like this you need to use shell commands, not make
commands.

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