RE: Expansion of recursively expanded variables

2002-02-26 Thread Matt Hastie
nt, I unnecessarily use double colon target rules on this duplicated targets as a workaround. Does this make any sense? Or, does the creation of sophisticated rules like these pervert the philosophy & spirit of make? What do you think? Regards, Matt. -----Original Message- From: Paul

Expansion of recursively expanded variables

2002-02-26 Thread Matt Hastie
eated.   I would advocate for the one of the following fixes:   - expansion of variables to occur at the start of each line of execution, performance   permitting, or,   - the inclusion of a $(reexpand var) function which would reinstantiate a variable and   return its new contents