Re: Bug#119663: make: shell function calls within rule commands are expanded too early

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:07:25PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>   ms>  I think the documentation needs to be clarified to explain this
>   ms>  behaviour (perhaps the shell functions are executed at the
>   ms>  beginning of the command group,
> 
> This is what happens.  When make gets ready to build a target, it
> evaluates all the commands needed to build that target at once, before
> the first line is invoked.

Thanks - that clarification in the documentation would clear things up
for me.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden