Adam C Powell IV <[email protected]> writes: > I've been beating my head on $(wildcard...) in a rules file for nearly a > week now, and can't make any sense of it. The rules file is attached,
In general, using $(wildcard ...) differs in two ways from using shell wildcards directly (which I would recommend simply doing here): - make expands it before running *any* commands; that allows its use in some contexts (particularly target lists), but backfires here because there won't necessarily be a *-packages directory when make starts. - When there are no matches, it expands to nothing, which is not default shell behavior (but available with bash's shopt nullglob). Your observations are consistent with that; in particular, your echo statement lists site-packages only because you fed the shell an unquoted wildcard. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
