hello! please keep our CC:s because we are not subscribed. i have found a bug in our (flashrom.org) makefile which may be a bug in make or its documentation. attached is a small test case makefile.
the related documentation is http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/make/Shell-Function.html and http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/make/Reading-Makefiles.html the problem is that the shell function runs before any other commands (i.e. immediate). the documentation of the shell function states: "The commands run by calls to the shell function are run when the function calls are expanded." and from the "reading makefiles" section i would say that this should be deferred i.e. the commands of the recipe should be evaluated sequently. instead the shell functions are run first: - 2 is written to the test file - 4 is written to the test file (overwriting 2) after that the normal execution starts. this leads to the output (among other things) of "1 4 4 3 4". the expected output is "1 <file not found> 2 3 4" could someone please explain if the observed behavior is "right" and if we just read the docs wrong, or if they *are* wrong. thanks! -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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