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
>
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