Hi !
trying to understand the concept of immediate and defered variables I wrote
up a simple makefile - but it todes not produce what I expected
--- Makefile ---
files_a := *.c
files_b = *.c
.PHONY: show
show:
touch junk.c
@echo ${files_a}
@echo ${files_b}
rm -f junk.c
@echo ${files_a}
@echo ${files_b}
------
the directory contains hello.c so my expectation was to see
touch junk.c
hello.c
hello.c junk.c
rm -f junk.c
hello.c
hello.c
but I actually get:
touch junk.c
hello.c junk.c
hello.c junk.c
rm -f junk.c
hello.c
hello.c
So the immediate variable files_a was NOT expanded immediatly
but was passed to echo as *.c .
I assume my concept of immediate vs. defered is wrong - so could anyone explain
me how to read the mkae manual corectly ??
thx !
hofrat
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