Thank you Philip. Now I understood what the manual says and it seems OK. Regards
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:06 PM, ali hagigat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 6.12 Pattern-specific Variable Values > >> This results in more specific variables taking precedence > >> over the more generic ones...to > > I wonder if part of the confusion here stems from the word > "precedence". In English, "to take precedence" does *not* imply an > order in time, but rather an order in _priority_. > > For example, consider the default variable assignment to "CC" versus > an assignment to "CC" in the Makefile. The default assignment happens > first in time, but the assignment in the Makefile has precedence. > > > Philip Guenther > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
