Re: $(wildcard) bug or feature?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Hans O. Lowe" <address@hidden> writes:

  hol> foo:
  hol>  touch 1.k 2.k

  hol> bar:     foo
  hol>  @echo $(wildcard *.k)

  hol> Shouldn't $(wildcard) expand only after the target `foo' has been
  hol> made?

GNU make keeps a directory cache internally.  The first time it visits a
directory (to find a file for example) it caches the contents of the
directory.  Thereafter it updates the cache itself with information in
knows about.  But it won't be udpated with information it doesn't know
about, and it can't know about 1.k or 2.k, because you didn't tell make
that your rule would build them.

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