Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54703 (project make):
Hello.
This is not a bug.
Argument of eval is always expanded prior evalation.
Let's see how this works.
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ITERATIONS:=1 2 3
ACCUMULATOR:=Macron go home :
WORD_1:=Macron
WORD_2:=go
WORD_3:=home
define ACCUMULATE
WORD:=$(WORD_$(1))
ACCUMULATOR:=$(ACCUMULATOR) $(WORD)
endef
$(foreach ITERATION,$(ITERATIONS),$(eval $(call ACCUMULATE,$(ITERATION))))
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* The first foreach iteration is expanded as:
WORD:=Macron
ACCUMULATOR:=Macron go home : <empty>
then evaluated
* second iteration is expanded as:
WORD:=go
ACCUMULATOR:=Macron go home : Macron
then evaluated
* third iteration is expanded as:
WORD:=home
ACCUMULATOR:=Macron go home : Macron go
and then evaluated.
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You need to delay expansion of $(WORD) in the ACCUMULATE until eval:
define ACCUMULATE
WORD:=$(WORD_$(1))
ACCUMULATOR:=$(ACCUMULATOR) $$(WORD)
endef
then, while processing assignment operator :=, eval expands the value a second
time
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For debugging, it is handy to trace eval calls, e.g.:
trace_eval = $(info $1)$(eval $1)
$(foreach ITERATION,$(ITERATIONS),$(call trace_eval,$(call
ACCUMULATE,$(ITERATION))))
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