Hello all, I'm rather new to make (only used it without reading the
manual so far).
The "all" target in a makefile for gcc5-2.0 looks like below. Notice
that this code snippet contains
no tab at all after the colon (the first tab is much further in the
code). I could not find
On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 17:57 +0100, Ewan Delanoy wrote:
> Hello all, I'm rather new to make (only used it without reading the
>manual so far).
> The "all" target in a makefile for gcc5-2.0 looks like below. Notice
>that this code snippet contains
>no tab at all after the colon
> The above introduces a rule "all:" which has no prerequisites and no
recipe
But some 70 lines after that "all:", a tab-at-beginning-of-line
appears, before the declaration of the next target. It appears as
follow :
CXX_FOR_TARGET_FLAG_TO_PASS = \
[TAB CHARACTER HERE]
I think with := it gets evaluated upon assignment, but with = it gets
evaluated on each use?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Ewan Delanoy wrote:
>> The above introduces a rule "all:" which has no prerequisites and no
>recipe
>
>But some 70 lines after that "all:", a tab-at-beginning-
On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 18:46 +0100, Ewan Delanoy wrote:
> > The above introduces a rule "all:" which has no prerequisites and no
> recipe
>
> But some 70 lines after that "all:", a tab-at-beginning-of-line
> appears, before the declaration of the next target. It appears as
> follow :
Doesn't mat
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> Well, make doesn't know anything about backticks and doesn't ever do
> anything special with them, so the answer is always "no, the command
> inside the backticks is not executed when the variable is assigned".
I stand corrected. Here's a litt
