Re: Target-specific variables and built-in rules

2002-03-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bradford Castalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bc> In the "Target-specific Variable Values" section of the gmake manual (http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_node/make_70.html#SEC69) bc> it is noted that " when you define a target-specific variable, that bc> variable value is also

Re: target-specific variables in the prereq section

2000-08-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Tom Drabenstott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: td> "As with automatic variables, these values are only available within the td> context of a target's command script (and in other target-specific td> assignments)." td> Why are target-specific variables handled in this way? My desired t

Re: target-specific variables

2000-05-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Henry LeRoy Miller, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hlm> I am unable to get the feature 'target-specific variables' to work. hlm> It appears that make attempts to interpret the assignment as a hlm> dependency (pre-requisite). hlm> I found the bit about escaping the equal sign in t