Need help on variable assignment

[lamthierry]

For GNU make 3.80 on linux, I have the following in my makefile:



helloworld:
        $(eval NAME = hello)

helloworld_dev: helloworld dev


dev:
ifneq ($(NAME),)
    echo "hi"
else
    echo "hey"
endif

At the command prompt, I type:
    make helloworld_dev

How come I keep getting "hey" instead of "hi"? Hasn't NAME been
initialised with the eval function? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Thierry