Re: Hierarchical automatic variables?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Peart, Jonathan E" <address@hidden> writes:

  pje> According to the gmake manual, the automatic variable $? gives
  pje> you "The names of all the prerequisites that are newer than the
  pje> target, with spaces between them."

  pje> That only works on one level of hierarchy.  What if I wanted the
  pje> names of all prerequisites of the prerequisites of the
  pje> prerequisites, etc etc.

You can't get this information normally.

If you use $(eval ...) in tricky ways you might be able to do it.

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