Improve automatic variables during secondary expansion

2019-07-13 Thread Mike Haboustak
I'm working on a project[1] that would benefit from using $< and $^ during secondary expansion. Unfortunately, they're not very usable currently. I have a relatively simple patch that I think improves several issues. It's a breaking change, but the end behavior seems consistent with user expectati

[bug #28456] Expansion of $$< is incorrect

2019-07-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #28456 (project make): Thanks for that fix Mike. I've applied it. I rewrote the tests somewhat to be a bit more specific. As for the rest of these problems, there are real issues here which are not easily solved. The only way to make something like this: foo: bar $$

Re: Feature request / patch: dependency-only prerequisites

2019-07-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 18:15 +0200, Christof Warlich wrote: > Am 10.07.19 um 14:44 schrieb Paul Smith: > > Let me know how you want to proceed. > > As I want to tackle the most challenging part first, I'd like to suggest to > do the copyright assignment after the technical side is in a decent shape