Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:30:37 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199608291230.IAA19659@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960829082559.16002B-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:29:01 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: Port of Make 3.74 to DJGPP


> Thanks for the warning.  I didn't look in the Make code yet, but this 
> suggests that the actual evaluation of `...` in FOO is deferred until the 
> command that uses it is run, right?  In that case, using a unixy shell 
> will have to be the solution to such fragments.

Correct.  Make expands make-defined variables (like ${FOO}) and make
functions (liek $(wildcard *.c)) but all other constructs are left to
the shell.