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Re: troubles with conditional install using automake


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: troubles with conditional install using automake
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:05:05 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Hi,

while I am not able to address your main problem, I'd like to address one
misunderstanding of the make language:

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> initrd_SCRIPTS is defined to $(INITRD) at the beginning of the Makefile, 
> while INITRD is defined at the end of the Makefile, with other 
> conditional variables, and thus appears empty when it is evaluated.

No, make doesn't work this way; consider the makefile:

A = $(BB)

e:
        echo $(A)

BB=x


Then ``make'' runs ``echo x''

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal




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