Re: complex makefile help

[Paul D. Smith]

You need to escape the $< as $$<.

I think you should try to find a way to do what you want without using
more than one depth of $(call ...)

This is the order of evaluation:

  $(foreach tget,$(TARGET_SYS),$(call 
FileExpander,$(tget),$(TARGET_SRC_C),CVarTargetBuild))

That evaluates FileExpander:

  define FileExpander
  $(foreach tfile,$(2),$(eval $(call $(3),$(tfile),$(1))))
  endef

With $3=CVarTargetBuild, you get:

  $(foreach tfile,$(2),$(eval $(call CVarTargetBuild,$(tfile),$(1))))

The $(call CVarTargetBuild,...) here will _expand_ the variable
CVarTargetBuild.  That expansion will resolve all variable references,
not just the $(1), etc. variables.

During that expansion, $< is expanded into the empty string (since that
variable only has a value when the command script is run.


So, the value you send to $(eval ...) as a result of the call doesn't
have $< in it, it just has the empty string.

Replace it with $$< and you should be OK.

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