On Sat, 2024-02-03 at 17:45 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> Here's how I think the "append changes the type of the variable"
> option works:
I should have been more clear on my nomenclature. In my examples the
column on the right is meant to describe what make has in its memory
for a variable. So if the right column contains:
FOO := a$b x$y
that means that make knows a variable FOO, it is a simple variable, and
its value is the string "a$b x$y".
I didn't mean that the right column should be interpreted as an
equivalent assignment a user might write in a makefile; so the above is
NOT meant to say that you would expand the right side and get
"FOO := a x".
Sorry for the possible confusion.
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