Re: newbie question about template expansion

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:08 -0800, gharding3 wrote:
> HI,
> 
> Trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing wrong... I've tried using $(eval
> foobar), $(eval ($call foobar)), each time the result is the same: nothing
> is printed.  Any ideas?
> 
> Makefile
> ========
> 
> define foobar
> FOO = foo
> BAR = bar
> endef
> 
> $(eval foobar)
> 
> build:
>         echo $(FOO)
>         echo $(BAR)

Eval takes an argument (string) to be evaluated, not the name of a
variable to be evaluated.  Write it like this:

$(eval $(foobar))