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Re: setting a variable only on condition that a rule is applied?


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: setting a variable only on condition that a rule is applied?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:07:26 -0500

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> Have you tried:
  ny> dorule1: RULE_DEPENDENT_VAR += rule1text

  ny> dorule2: RULE_DEPENDENT_VAR += rule2text

This won't work because target-specific variables are only passed
downward, to prerequisites, not upward.

  ny> I don't think target-specific variables transcend targets, though.

If you meant what I wrote above, then right! :).

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