On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:24 -0700, Frazer Worley wrote:
> We're trying use variable settings defined in a target specific rules
> within the target's prerequisite list. It doesn't appear that
> the variables settings are actually valid/applied until the body of
> the target - the command section.
That's correct. The GNU make manual says, in the second paragraph of
the section "Target-Specific Variable Values":
As with automatic variables, these values are only available
within the context of a target's command script (and in other
target-specific assignments).
Since we don't really know what you're trying to do we can't give you a
range of suggestions on how to do it.
However, the only way to do exactly what you're trying to do is to use
$(eval ...). There are other, simpler ways to do things if what you're
trying to do doesn't require the full flexibility of eval.
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