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Re: troubles with conditional install using automake
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz> writes:
> Hi,
>
> while I am not able to address your main problem, I'd like to address one
> misunderstanding of the make language:
>
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> initrd_SCRIPTS is defined to $(INITRD) at the beginning of the Makefile,
>> while INITRD is defined at the end of the Makefile, with other
>> conditional variables, and thus appears empty when it is evaluated.
>
> No, make doesn't work this way; consider the makefile:
>
> A = $(BB)
>
> e:
> echo $(A)
>
> BB=x
>
>
> Then ``make'' runs ``echo x''
But when $(A) appears on the dependency list of e, for example, it will be
expanded already while the makefile is being read in.
Andreas.
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