Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E012@IIS000> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'Christopher Jones'" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: New Cygwin Net Release (make error) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:35:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id IAA21788 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Jones [mailto:cbjones@nortelnetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:49 PM To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: New Cygwin Net Release (make error) Okay, I'm sure of what caused this now. The Makefile look something like this. #--begin Makefile--- SOMEVAR=$(ANOTHERVAR)/etc include $(DEVDIR)/Makefile.mstr #--end Makefile--- DEVDIR is defined in the environment. ANOTHERVAR however is defined in the included makefile. I thought make was supposed to try to do full expansion on a second read of the makefile? Seems to have worked before. In fact make is suppose to expand SOMEVAR only when it sees $(SOMEVAR), so yo u only have to be sure that ANOTHERVAR is set before trying to use SOMEVAR. However be careful: if SOMEVAR is used in a dependency (either target or dependant part), it will be expanded as soon as it is seen. HTH Bernard, ------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingéniérie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail:dautrevaux@microprocess.com b.dautrevaux@usa.net -------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com