Yes, that's the suggestion I was making though I don't know the innards of make well enough to know how hard it would be.
David On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncha...@users.sf.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:01 PM David Boyce <david.s.bo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > When I say "needed" here I mean specifically that the recipe runs. > Clearly a target-specific variable is 'needed' iff the target is built. > It's not a question of how many places the variable is expanded, it's a > boolean thing: the target is built or not built, the target-specific > variable is needed or not. > > You mean for target specific simple variable memory is allocated and > the variable is initialized only if the target is built, right? > Looks reasonable to me. > > regards, Dmitry >
