On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 09:45 -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> GNU Make's manual uses the word "evaluate" for all compile-time
> calculations
My suspicion is that there are various places in the manual where the
terms "expand" and "evaluate" are not used exactly correctly. They
might even be used interc
On 2023-06-07 00:37, Bartłomiej Wójcik wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you for the response. I think that I understand that,
> but still not catching the part with other things.
> What is the term _evaluation_, when does it happen (in which phase)
> and how is it related to parsing, expanding?
We can think
On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 00:14 +0200, Bartłomiej Wójcik wrote:
> I also found that in the *immediate* context the expansion is done
> before evaluation, and for the *deferred* context, it is the
> opposite. But it is also stated that in the *immediate *context, the
> expansion is done while parsing, w
Hi,
Thank you for the response. I think that I understand that, but still not
catching the part with other things. What is the term *evaluation*, when
does it happen (in which phase) and how is it related
to parsing, expanding?
Regards,
Bartek
śr., 7 cze 2023 o 09:08 Kaz Kylheku napisał(a):
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On 2023-06-06 15:14, Bartłomiej Wójcik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask you for help with clarifying the idea of evaluation and
> expansion related to makefile. As I understand, expansion refers to
> replacing macro reference by its value and there are two possible ways of
> expansion - *immed
