On 14 March 2016 at 14:22, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Something that seems to be a constant source of confusion for users is
> the fact that GNU make expands the entire recipe first, before it starts
> any rules. Consider this recipe:
>
> all:
> @echo hi
> @$(info there)
>
>
or indeed :
all:
@mkdir output; $(file stuff>>output/file.txt)
Just to point out the obvious that this change wouldn't remove the need to
understand the order of expansion.
Regards,
Tim
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