> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:57:10 -0700 > From: "Philip Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > > You're missing section 3.9, "How `make' Reads a Makefile". It's > explained there how the expansion of variables occurs immediately (as > the makefile is parsed) in some contexts and is deferred until the > involved text is used in other contexts and which contexts are which.
Maybe the manual should say explicitly that when Make expands variables, it always does that recursively, until everything is expanded. That is, it's not a single-step text substitution that the OP expected. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
