Re: make not expanding variables

[Philip Guenther]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Vance Turnewitsch <address@hidden>
wrote:
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with make version 3.81-8.1ubuntu1.1 and was
> failing to build bitbake recipes. I narrowed it down to an odd problem with
> make not expanding variables. I've attached a sample make file (makefile)
> with the "problem."
>
> When I use this makefile, I get a directory "{hi,hi2}" within TestMake but
> instead there should be two directories within TestMake created: "hi" and
> "hi2", correct?
>


Well, that depends on the behavior of the shell that your system's 'make'
is compiled to use by default as ${SHELL}.




>
> As an example from the actual project, I have attached Makefile_real. This
> is a copy of a make file within the project. The problem is the line:
>
> cp -f {mcc_linux.h,mcc_common.h,mcc_config.h} $(DESTDIR)/usr/include/linux/
>
> which I have commented out in the file and replaced it with three calls to
> copy the files individually. The make file runs fine with the individual
> copying. Other files though that use {} are failing as well...and the
> content within the {} are much more complexthan this simple manual copying.
>
> Thus, any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Vance Turnewitsch
>
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