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Re: Problems with conditional sources


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Problems with conditional sources
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:15:48 +0200
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John Calcote <address@hidden> writes:

> Make is a two-pass utility. The first pass completely assimilates all
> macro data specified in the Makefile. THEN, the second pass generates
> the rule dependency tree.

This is not true.  Variable refences in target and dependency lists are
expanded when they are read.  Any later redefinition will not change
them.

Andreas.

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