Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The difference with this method is that the values are computed once > when configure is run, and then substituted into the Makefile when it is > generated after configure has completed. When you use $(shell ...) the > value is not computed until you run make, and the result is not stored > anywhere so it is recomputed each time that make is run.
Even worse, it is recomputed each time the variable is _used_, ie. for every compilation job started by make. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
