On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 12:58:23PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Log Message:
> Explain variable expansion better. Requested by Aleksey Cheusov
This is wrong. Loop variables are not exapnded on each loop iteration.
Each loop iteration effectively creates a new variable. The rest of his
confusion
In article <20100609171621.ga23...@britannica.bec.de>,
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 12:58:23PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> Explain variable expansion better. Requested by Aleksey Cheusov
>
>This is wrong. Loop variables are not exapnded on each loop iter
In message:
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
: In article <20100609171621.ga23...@britannica.bec.de>,
: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
: >On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 12:58:23PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
: >> Log Message:
: >> Explain variable expansion better. Requested by Al
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 06:45:35PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >
> >This is wrong. Loop variables are not exapnded on each loop iteration.
> >Each loop iteration effectively creates a new variable. The rest of his
> >confusion comes from two simple facts:
> >(1) += is lazy in bmake. This is dif
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 01:19:29PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> It looks like it is lazy to me for all non-loop variables in FreeBSD:
...
> % cat M
> FOO=1
> BAR=2
> .for j in a b c
> FOO+= ${BAR} ${j}
> .endfor
> BAR=3
>
> all:
> @echo ${FOO}
> @echo ${BAR}
> % make -f M
> 1
