Re: [PATCH] pattern-specific variable expansion

[Noel Yap]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ny> Hmmm, I ran into something similar in which:
>   ny> a := A
>
>   ny> bar:
>   ny>        @echo $a
>
>   ny> a := B
>
>   ny> would output B.
>
> Of course.  As expected.
>
> Command scripts are not expanded until they are about to be invoked by
> make, which is well after all the makefiles are read in.  By that time
> the value of the variable "a" IS "B".

Yes, of course.  This makes sense.

Thanks,
Noel