Re: Order of expansion of recipe lines

[Tim Murphy]

On 14 March 2016 at 14:22, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

Something that seems to be a constant source of confusion for users is
the fact that GNU make expands the entire recipe first, before it starts
any rules.  Consider this recipe:

  all:
          @echo hi
          @$(info there)

or indeed :

all:

        @mkdir output; $(file stuff>>output/file.txt)

Just to point out the obvious that this change wouldn't remove the need to understand the order of expansion.

Regards,

Tim