On Sat, 12 Oct 2019, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 08:13 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > weirdly(?), there is a target which first runs a number of simple > > linux commands (rm, mkdir, ...), then invokes "foreach" a couple > > times to call some functions. > > > > i say "weirdly" because the output shows the "foreach" invocations > > being run (they invoke their own "info" calls) *before* the linux > > commands. > > When you say "foreach" I assume you are referring to GNU make > $(foreach ...) functions?
yessir. > That's expected. GNU make will expand the entire recipe first, > including all lines of the recipe, before starting any shell > commands. > > There's an issue in Savannah about this. It's a source of much > confusion and I wondered if it would break things to change it. > But so far it's just idle curiosity. got it. i suspected it was something like that, just wanted to be sure. rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
