Re: directory search fails!

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:12 +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
> > Make does not go through the recipes, etc. and replace "target1" with
> > "/foo/bar/baz/target1".
> 
> Thank you Paul for the explanations. So Make does not go through the
> recipes, etc. and replace "target1" with "/foo/bar/baz/target1" but $<
> will be replaced with /foo/bar/baz/target1?!!

Exactly.

> $< is not used inside a recipe? So Make goes through the recipes! 

You cannot read just one half of my sentence and ignore the other half.
I did not say make does not go through the recipes, full stop.
Certainly make goes through recipes, to expand variable references.

I said it doesn't go through the recipes _AND_ replace "target1" with
"/foo/bar/baz/target1".  Together, these two statements are not true.

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