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tm> Now it gets a little more complicated because the contents of
tm> INFO_FILE get modified during the build, and I only want to
tm> evaluate FOO after INFO_FILE has been modified However what I'm
tm> finding is that if I modify the contents of INFO_FILE and
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> All the variables and functions in a rule script are evaluated before
> the first line is run. For example, in:
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> foo:
> echo $(FOO)
> echo $(BAR)
>
> Make goes:
>
> evaluate FOO, evaluate BAR, run echo $(FOO), run echo $(BAR)
>
> and NOT:
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tm> Every time I build an executable I append some information about the
tm> build to a log file. This is done with a perl script called in one of
tm> the makefile rules. The script tags this information with a unique
tm> serial number, and sends this number t
