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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2021-05-30 11:01:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2021-05-30 15:53:51 -0400 |
| commit | 1cffd0a203bc1477671a02aafd6360b7bb964670 (patch) | |
| tree | 108330bedf7dafa2294f2415cb275093377a50b3 /doc | |
| parent | b580949ae0981cc2ecd466ad1dacb42f2f4a9f7d (diff) | |
| download | make-git-1cffd0a203bc1477671a02aafd6360b7bb964670.tar.gz | |
* make.texi (Reading Makefiles): != creates recursive variables.
Reported by Ronald Hoogenboom <RHoogenboom@irdeto.com>.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/make.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi index 1ebf6ae2..1464d0ca 100644 --- a/doc/make.texi +++ b/doc/make.texi @@ -1552,8 +1552,9 @@ immediate if the variable was previously set as a simple variable For the shell assignment operator @samp{!=}, the right-hand side is evaluated immediately and handed to the shell. The result is stored -in the variable named on the left, and that variable becomes a simple -variable (and will thus be re-evaluated on each reference). +in the variable named on the left, and that variable is considered a +recursively expanded variable (and will thus be re-evaluated on each +reference). @subheading Conditional Directives @cindex ifdef, expansion |