Re: a question about the make manual and $(call

[Lane Schwartz]

I've got some good examples at work. If I don't email them to you on
Monday, send me a reminder.

Lane


On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:29 AM, ali hagigat <address@hidden> wrote:
> 8.6 The call Function
> The call function expands the param arguments before assigning them to 
> temporary
> variables. This means that variable values containing references to
> builtin functions that
> have special expansion rules, like foreach or if, may not work as you expect.
> Some examples may make this clearer.
> ----------------------------------
> All the examples after these sentences of the manual have some
> parameters which are specific strings and they are not built in
> functions that are expanded in a special way. What example explains
> the above sentences?
>
> I wonder if anybody can give an example for the "foreach" or "if" case
> which the manual has mentioned.
>
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