Re: Bug#119663: make: shell function calls within rule commands are expanded too early

2001-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:07:25PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ms> I think the documentation needs to be clarified to explain this > ms> behaviour (perhaps the shell functions are executed at the > ms> beginning of the command group, >

Re: Bug#119663: make: shell function calls within rule commands are expanded too early

2001-11-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> The info documentation for the 'shell' function includes the following ms> paragraph: ms> The commands run by calls to the `shell' function are run when the ms> function calls are expanded. In most cases, this is when the makefi