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Re: about immediate and deferred variable assignment in GNU make


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: about immediate and deferred variable assignment in GNU make
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:17:25 -0400

%% I wrote:

  pds> A recursive variable (expansion is deferred) will have to be
  pds> expanded every time the variable is referenced.  Any variables in
  pds> the value expand to their CURRENT values, not what they were when
  pds> the simple variable was assigned.

Doh.  I mean "when the _recursive_ variable was assigned."

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