Re: confusion over eval and warning

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Ted Stern <address@hidden> writes:

  ts> one.o   := a/a/one.o
  ts> two.o   := b/b/two.o
  ts> three.o := c/c/three.o
  ts> four.o  := d/d/four.o
  ts> five.o  := e/e/five.o

  ts> ALL_BASE := one two three four five

  ts> define DEFINE_OBJ_LIST
  ts> $(1)_OBJS := $(foreach BASE,$(filter $(2)%,$(ALL_BASE)),$($(BASE).o))
  ts> $(warning $(1)_OBJS (contains $(words $($(1)_OBJS)) objects) = 
$($(1)_OBJS))
  ts> endef

You're going to need to escape a lot of the "$" in this list.  Remember
that $(call ...) is going to evaluate this variable value first, before
eval gets to it.  When that happens the "first level" of unescaped "$"
are expanded... _BEFORE_ eval gets there.

Basically, leave the arguments to call (e.g., $(1), $(2), etc.)
unescaped, and escape all the other "$" as "$$" (this is just a general
rule; for example since $(ALL_BASE) is a constant you don't have to
escape that, if you don't want to, etc.)

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