%% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you modify the contents of a directory "behind make's back" then
>> things like wildcard, etc. may not work properly since they operate on
>> the cached version not the real directory contents.
rpjd> ah, so what this tells me is that, if i want to match a wildcard
rpjd> pattern and i use the wildcard() function, there really is no
rpjd> effective difference if i do that at the top of my makefile with
rpjd> either of:
Hm. Really, it's not that determinant... it depends on when the caching
is done. Unfortunately. The directory cache is a big time savings but
it also leads to a lot of non-intuitive behavior. I'm more and more
ambivalent about it.
You can always use:
files := $(shell echo *o)
if you want to be sure you're getting what's _really_ in the directory.
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