"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
>
> %% "Johan Bezem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> jb> this seems to be by design, to overcome the fact that
>
> jb> OBJECTS = *.o
>
> jb> doesn't expand the list, whereas
>
> jb> OBJECTS = $(wildcard *.o)
>
> jb> does. $(wildcard is expanded upon the fi
"Johan Bezem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DervishD wrote:
>> Will this undesired
>> behaviour (undesired by me, at least) be solved if I replace
>> $(wildcard pattern) with $(shell echo pattern)?
>
> No, you'd probably need 'ls', 'echo' just echoes the given characters, and
> uses no wildcard expa
Hi Paul :)
> Why doesn't it
> work? It doesn't work because GNU make actually caches the contents of
> directories as it reads them, for performance reasons.
I supposed that some caching was the cause, but for me was
reasonable that $wildcard will not expand if the new file wasn't
cached
%% "Johan Bezem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jb> this seems to be by design, to overcome the fact that
jb> OBJECTS = *.o
jb> doesn't expand the list, whereas
jb> OBJECTS = $(wildcard *.o)
jb> does. $(wildcard is expanded upon the first pass over the
jb> makefile, ie. when no ru
Hi Johan :)
I'm writing to the bug mailinglist so anybody can read the
message, ok?, but really is for you ;)
> this seems to be by design, to overcome the fact that
>
> OBJECTS = *.o
>
> doesn't expand the list, whereas
>
> OBJECTS = $(wildcard *.o)
>
> does.
Yes, I know, it
Hi,
this seems to be by design, to overcome the fact that
OBJECTS = *.o
doesn't expand the list, whereas
OBJECTS = $(wildcard *.o)
does. $(wildcard is expanded upon the first pass over the makefile, ie. when
no rules have been executed yet; so your 'testfile' doesn't yet exist, and
$(wildc
