"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > %% "Johan Bezem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jb> this seems to be by design, to overcome the fact that > > jb> OBJECTS = *.o > > jb> doesn't expand the list, whereas > > jb> OBJECTS = $(wildcard *.o) > > jb> does. $(wildcard is expanded upon the first pass over the > jb> makefile, ie. when no rules have been executed yet; > > This is not true... or at least not in the above case. > > The $(wildcard ...) function is expanded using exactly the same rules as > make variables and the other functions: there are _no_ special cases. > > In the above example, because the variable is recursive $(wildcard *) is > _not_ expanded when that line is read. <...> > ... because GNU make actually caches the contents of > directories as it reads them, for performance reasons.
Well, what do you know: Not a day passes without learning something new ;-) Thanks, Paul! Johan _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
