On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Martin Dorey <martin.do...@hds.com> wrote: > "It’s very important that you recognize the limited scope in which automatic > variable values are available: they only have values within the recipe. In > particular, you cannot use them anywhere within the target list of a rule; > they have no value there and will expand to the empty string."
As an aside, one thing I figured out a few weeks ago is that the following *does* work as you'd hope: %: export TARGET=$@ %: export PREREQS=$^ Combined with a replacement SHELL, this can be used to take some very interesting implicit actions. Kyle _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
