On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:07:25PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ms> I think the documentation needs to be clarified to explain this > ms> behaviour (perhaps the shell functions are executed at the > ms> beginning of the command group, > > This is what happens. When make gets ready to build a target, it > evaluates all the commands needed to build that target at once, before > the first line is invoked.
Thanks - that clarification in the documentation would clear things up for me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make