On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:36:43AM -0700, David Boyce wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncha...@users.sf.net> > wrote: > > You mean for target specific simple variable memory is allocated and > > the variable is initialized only if the target is built, right?
> 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. After further thinking i came to the following example. a:=1 bat: wom:=$(a) a:=2 bat:; @echo wom=$(wom) If make postpones initialization of wom until bat recipe has to run then the value of wom will be 2. This would be a breaking change. regards, Dmitry
