make

[Sebastian Glita]

    Hi,

 

    I have a problem with "transporting" dollar sign through multiple
function calls.
    I have attached a tar'ed gzip'ed example.
    The correct output (action) of `make' should be (when `case'=default):
cc  -DX='"$"'    a.c   -o a

 

but surprisingly, it goes like this:
cc  -DX='""'    a.c   -o a

 

    I took a *little* time to debug what `make' was doing, and I came up
with the following question:

 

    When using the builtin `call' function, why are the `define_variable'd
$(1) ... $(N) automatic variables *recursive* ? Since their values are
previously obtained from expanding the actual parameters, recursively
expanding their values when encountered has no extra effect, except to
divide the number of consecutively pairs of `$'s ! Do I presume right ?
    I changed the last argument for `define_variable' in `function.c'
file in the function:

 

static char *
func_call (o, argv, funcname)
     char *o;
     char **argv;
     const char *funcname;

 

from 1 to 0.
    It works well now !

 

    I have a `K7 Athlon' running `Red Hat Linux 7.2' machine.

 

This is the output of `make --version':
----
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
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Sincerely,

 

Sebastian Glita
student
Computer Science Faculty
Timisoara
Romania

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