I've been trying to make use of secondary expansion and I ran into some
confusion that I couldn't reconcile with manual. Specifically, The value
of the automatic variable $< is not what I'd expect during the second
expansion of an implicit rule prerequisite.
In the makefile below, foo.o is built v
On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:07:08PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 14:32 -0500, Mike Haboustak wrote:
> > It seems that the value of $< is getting defaulted for implicit rules
> > during second expansion. However, the value of $< is correct in the
> >
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 9:51 AM Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> How can I get make to not try to resolve the $ in the value as it seems
> to be doing for all of the echos in the debug target:
The value built-in function will provide the value of a variable without
expanding it. See Section 8.8 of the Gn
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM Jeenu Viswambharan wrote:
>
> There's little point in my repeating the question here. As suggested
> by an answer to the post, the issue I reported is solved if I add a
> semicolon to a rule.
>
> But I further wanted to understand _why_ the solution works. Somehow,
>
